Baphia nitida G.Lodd.

Camwood (en), Bois rouge (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Baphia

Characteristics

A shrub or small tree. It grows 10 m high and the trunk is 45 cm across. It can have many stems. The branches are slender and curve over like an umbrella. The leaves are alternate and narrowly oval or oblong. They are 10-15 cm long. The flowers are in the axils of leaves with 1-4 flowers. The flowers are white with yellow centre. The fruit is a flattened pod 10-15 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.45
Mature height (meter) 10.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

An understorey tree in wetter parts of the coastal regions, in rainforest, in secondary forest and on abandoned farmland, from sea-level up to 600 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows as an under-storey tree in wetter parts and rain-forest in West Africa. It grows up to 600 m above sea level.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses animal food cosmetics dye environmental use food hedge material medicinal ornamental religious shade social use timber wood
Edible seeds
Therapeutic use Platelet aggregation inhibitors (seed), Arthritis (unspecified), Carminative (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Parasiticide (unspecified), Preventitive(Sting(Bee)) (unspecified), Ringworm (unspecified), Sprain (unspecified), Stiffness (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Venereal (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Fungicide (unspecified), Gastritis (unspecified), Jaundice (unspecified), Newborn (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Enteritis (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown by seeds and by cuttings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 24 - 30
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Baphia nitida leaf picture by Flora Wei (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Baphia nitida flower picture by Planter King (cc-by-sa)
Baphia nitida flower picture by Michael Lim (cc-by-sa)
Baphia nitida flower picture by Chee Keong Chan (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Baphia nitida world distribution map, present in Angola, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, India, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Senegal, Singapore, Sierra Leone, and Togo

Conservation status

Baphia nitida threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:480895-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212016
COL ID 5WC3R
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Podalyria haematoxylon Baphia haematoxylon Baphia barombiensis Carpolobia versicolor Carpolobia versicolor Dalhousiea haematoxylon Baphia nitida var. pubescens Baphia nitida