Corkwood is a
common name
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of a number of plants:
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Ackama paniculosa'', a soft barked corkwood from Australia in the coachwood family
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Annona glabra
''Annona glabra'' is a Tropics, tropical fruit tree in the family Annonaceae, in the same genus as the soursop and cherimoya. Common names include pond apple, alligator apple (so called because American alligators often eat the fruit), swamp appl ...
'', found in the West Indies
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Commiphora angolensis
''Commiphora angolensis'', also known as sand commiphora or sand corkwood, is a shrub species in the genus ''Commiphora'' growing mainly in Angola and Namibia.
The adults and larvae of '' Diamphidia nigroornata'' feed on ''C. angolensis''.
The ...
'' (sand corkwood), a shrub mainly in Angola and Namibia
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Commiphora saxicola
''Commiphora saxicola'', also known as rock corkwood, is a shrub species in the genus '' Commiphora'' endemic to, and protected in, Namibia. It grows on rock slopes and in gravel plains in an area reaching from the Kunene River south to Helmering ...
'' (rock corkwood), a shrub endemic to Namibia
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Duboisia'', a genus with species in Australia
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Endiandra sieberi
''Endiandra sieberi'', known as the corkwood is a rainforest tree growing in eastern Australia.
Habitat
A common tree on lowland and some mountain rainforests. Very common on sand in littoral rainforests. The corky bark assists in protectio ...
'', a corkwood from Australia in the laurel family
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Entelea arborescens
''Entelea arborescens'' or whau is a species of malvaceous tree endemic to New Zealand. ''E. arborescens'' is the only species in the genus ''Entelea''. A shrub or small tree to 6 m with large lime-like leaves giving a tropical appearance, ...
'', found in New Zealand
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Erythrina vespertilio
''Erythrina vespertilio'' is a tree native to north and north-east Australia. Its common names are grey corkwood, bat's wing coral tree, yulbah and the more ambiguous " bean tree". In the Western Desert language it is also known as ''ininti'' ...
'' (grey corkwood), Australia
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Hakea divaricata
''Hakea divaricata'', commonly known as needlewood, corkbark tree or fork-leaved corkwood, is a tree or shrub in the family ''Proteaceae'' native to an area in central Australia. A slow growing species with up to 120 showy cream to greenish-yel ...
'', found in Australia
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Hakea ivoryi
''Hakea ivoryi'' , commonly known as Ivory's hakea, corkwood or the corkbark tree, is a shrub or small tree in the family ''Proteaceae'' and is endemic to an area in the South West region of Queensland and the north west of New South Wales.
Desc ...
'', Australia
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Hakea suberea
''Hakea'' ( ) is a genus of about 150 species of plants in the Family ''Proteaceae'', endemic to Australia. They are shrubs or small trees with leaves that are sometimes flat, otherwise circular in cross section in which case they are sometimes d ...
'', Australia
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Leitneria floridana'', southeastern North America
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Melicope'', a genus with species in Australia
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Musanga cecropioides
''Musanga cecropioides'', the African corkwood tree or umbrella tree, is found in tropical Africa from Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is border ...
'' (African corkwood), Africa
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Sesbania grandiflora'', southeast Asia and northern Australia, with edible flowers
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Stillingia aquatica
Stillingia aquatica, known as water toothleaf and corkwood, is a flowering shrub in the genus ''Stillingia'' that grows in the Southeastern United States in parts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina. It is in the spurge family, ''Eup ...
'', woody shrub that grows in the southeastern United States
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