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Pentadesma butyracea
About
Pentadesma butyracea is a tree native to the forests of tropical Africa from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. It has multiple uses, the main one being the manufacture of a kind of butter called "kpangnan butter" similar to shea butter. The timber is used in cabinetmaking and construction.
- Family
- Clusiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pentadesma butyracea
- Slug
- pentadesma-butyracea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Clusiaceae
- Genus
- Pentadesma
- Species
- butyracea
- Wikidata QID
- Q3338936
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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