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Dialium polyanthum

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
W. & WC. Trop. Africa
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dialium polyanthum is a species of flowering plant, a medium to large tree in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Dialioideae.

The trees grow in flooded forest or on dry ground, on swamp- and stream sides, reaching 35 m in height with a bole up to 100 cm in diameter. which occurs in Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa, Gabon, Cabinda and Northern Angola.

Other Dialium plants

Dialium bipindense · Velvet Tamarind · Dialium excelsum · Ironwood · Velvet tamarind · Dialium holtzii · Tamarind Plum · Dialium lopense · Dialium orientale · Dialium ovoideum · Hill Tamarind · Dialiums

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dialium polyanthum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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