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Erythrophleum suaveolens (Red Water Tree; Ordeal Tree; sasswood; Red Water Tree Of Sierra Leone; Sassy Bark)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Erythrophleum suaveolens is a species of plants that can be found in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The species are 20 metres (66 ft) in height, and have a rough and blackish bark. The plants liaves have 2–3 pairs of pinnae, which carry 7–13 leaflets. The leaflets are 5 by 2.5 centimetres (1.97 in × 0.98 in), are green coloured and ovate. The flowers have fluffy spikes, and are creamy-yellow coloured. Fruits are hard, the pod of which is flat.
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Attributes

Janka Hardness [1]  2530 lbf (1148 kgf) Very Hard
Specific Gravity [2]  0.824
Structure [3]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
East Usambara Biosphere Reserve 222395 Tanzania  
Mahale Mountains National Park II 398414 Tanzania

Predators

Lophocebus albigena (gray-cheeked mangabey)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 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.
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Seasonal Variation in the Feeding Ecology of the Grey-cheeked Mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) in Cameroon, JOHN R. POULSEN, CONNIE J. CLARK, AND THOMAS B. SMITH, American Journal of Primatology 54:91–105 (2001)
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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