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Dialium aubrevillei
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Dialium aubrevillei

Dialium aubrevillei

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

The saw dust may cause irritation to mucous membranes in wood workers[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Tree
Growth—

A plant of the moist lowland tropics, where it is found at elevations below 500 metres. It prefers regions with a mean annual rainfall around 1,500 - 2,000mm[1]. Prefers base-poor, acid soils[1]. Usually found on better drained soils on hill slopes[1]. Natural regeneration is most abundant in undisturbed forest. Seedlings have been reported to prefer shade and mineral soils, and are often abundant in the vicinity of parent trees[1]. Although many species within the family Fabaceae have a symbiotic relationship with soil bacteria, this species is said to be devoid of such a relationship and therefore does not fix atmospheric nitrogen[2].

Propagation

Seed - it may take 2 weeks to 3 months to germinate, and the germination rate is moderate[1]. Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Dialium+aubrevillei>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
  2. [2]Nodulation Plants in GRIN Taxonomy — United States Department of Agriculture · http://www.ars-grin.gov/~sbmljw/cgi-bin/taxnodul.pl?language=en ↩︎An online database listing plants that have either positive or negative reports on root and stem nodulation with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
  3. [3]African Flowering Plants Database — Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. · http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php ↩︎Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
  4. [4]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/
  5. [5]Tropix 7 — CIRAD · http://tropix.cirad.fr/en ↩︎An on-line guide to the timbers of 245 species of trees.