Diospyros ferrea
Diospyros ferrea, known as black ebony, is a tree in the ebony family, distributed in Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malay Peninsula, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Laos.Common names
- Chinese - 象牙树
- Philippines - batulinau
- Indonesia - bibisan, ai meten, wawama
- Sri Lanka - Hik-ul-Haenda
- Viet Nam - trandung
- French - ngavi du fourré littoral.
- West African - GHANA ADANGME gblεt∫o NIGERIA HAUSA kas kawami YORUBA paroko SENEGAL DIOLA é tikuñi MANDING-MANINKA ko gélin ko: tree WOLOF sélah
Distribution
From West Africa to India, Indo-China, north to the Ryukyu Islands, east to the Malesian area, Australia, Melanesia and Polynesia.Uses
D. ferrea is reported to be an important source of black ebony, but this is doubtful because of the unsatisfactory taxonomy of the group involved.External resources
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- https://archive.is/20130707154040/http://211.114.21.20/tropicalplant/html/print.jsp?rno=950
- http://plants.jstor.org/upwta/2_11
- http://www.biotik.org/laos/species/d/diofe/diofe_en.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053115/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/botany/plants_of_micronesia/index.php/scientific-names/360-diospyros-ferrea
