Diospyros heudelotii Hiern

Species

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Characteristics

A tree. It grows 20 m high. The trunk is straight. The leaves are simple and alternate. The leaves and flowers emit a coarse smell. It can produce flowers and fruit on the trunk. The flowers are white or pale yellow. The ripe fruit are yellow or orange. There is only a thin layer around the seed.
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Shrub or small or medium-sized forest tree up to 60 ft. high, sometimes cauliflorous
Slash black outside, wood pink
Flowers white or pale yellow
Fruit yellow or orange.
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 18.29
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Environment

An understorey plant of the evergreen forest, also growing in more open, secondary formations.
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A tropical plant. It grows in the lower storey of evergreen forest in West Africa.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses food material medicinal wood
Edible fruits nuts seeds
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Diospyros heudelotii world distribution map, present in Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone

Conservation status

Diospyros heudelotii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:322495-1
WFO ID wfo-0000649066
COL ID 6D8XS
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Synonyms

Maba lancea Diospyros heudelotii Diospyros guineensis Diospyros ferrea var. lancea Ebenus lancea