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Ordeal tree
Erythrophleum suaveolens
About
Erythrophleum suaveolens, also known as the ordeal tree, is a species of flowering plant that can be found across most of tropical Africa. The species are 20 metres (66 ft) in height, and have a rough and blackish bark. The plants leaves have 2–3 pairs of pinnae, which carry 7–13 leaflets. The leaflets are 5 by 2.5 centimetres, are green coloured and ovate. The flowers have fluffy spikes, and are creamy-yellow coloured. Fruits are hard, the pod of which is flat.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Erythrophleum suaveolens
- Slug
- erythrophleum-suaveolens
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Erythrophleum
- Species
- suaveolens
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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