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Boarwood

Symphonia globulifera

Boarwood
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil, CC BY 2.0
Family
Clusiaceae (Clusi family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
S. Mexico to Trop. America, W. Trop. Africa to Chad and Tanzania
Climate
wet tropical

About

Symphonia globulifera, commonly known as boarwood, is a timber tree abundant in Central America, the Caribbean, South America and Africa. This plant is also used as a medicinal plant and ornamental plant.

Where it grows

Symphonia globulifera is abundant in the Americas (from Mexico and the Caribbean south to Ecuador) and Africa (from Liberia east to Uganda and south to Angola).

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Symphonia globulifera 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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