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Erythrophleum lasianthum
Also called Swazi Ordeal Tree, Red Water Tree, Sasswood, Sassy Bark Tree
Erythrophleum lasianthum, the Maputaland ordeal tree, is a tree with a localized range in the endangered lowland forests of southeastern Africa.
It is found from False Bay to Maputaland in northern KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, adjacent southern Mozambique and in eastern Eswatini.
African Blackwood · Cooktown Ironwood · Erythrophleum couminga · Erythrophleum fordii · Ordealtree · Sasswood · Erythrophleum succirubrum · Sasswood
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erythrophleum lasianthum 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.
