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Cassipourea malosana
Also called Lesser Onionwood
African Onionwood is a large evergreen tree of high-elevation African forests, grown mainly for timber, shade and reforestation rather than as a garden plant. It is rarely cultivated as an ornamental and is best grown outdoors in mild, frost-free climates.
Cassipourea malosana is a species of plant native to tropical Africa.
Cassipourea malosana is native to the mountains of Eastern and Central Africa, from Eritrea through Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Eswatini, and South Africa. There is an outlier population in the Cameroon Highlands of Cameroon.
The tree has fine and even-textured wood, and produces hard and heavy timber. It is exploited artisanally and commercially in East Africa, and is usually harvested from the wild. It is also used for firewood.
Cassipourea brittoniana · Cassipourea congoensis · Cassipourea dinklagei · Cassipourea eketensis · Cassipourea fanshawei · Small Leaved Bastard Onionwood · Cassipourea hiotou · Cassipourea lanceolata · Cassipourea obovata · Cassipourea subcordata · Cassipourea subsessilis · Cassipourea swaziensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cassipourea malosana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
