Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Biancaea > Biancaea sappan

Biancaea sappan (Sappan Wood Tree; Sappanwood; Brazilwood; Sappan; Bois sappan; Gango)

Synonyms: Caesalpinia angustifolia; Caesalpinia sapang; Caesalpinia sappan (homotypic)
Language: Hindi; Sinhala

Wikipedia Abstract

Caesalpinia sappan is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is native to Southeast Asia. Common names in English include sappanwood and Indian redwood. Sappanwood belongs to the same genus as Brazilwood (C. echinata), and was originally called "brezel wood" in Europe. Disease : Twig dieback (Lasiodiplodia theobromae)
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Specific Gravity [2]  0.835

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0