Newtonia aubrevillei

Botanical Description

Newtonia aubrevillei is a tree; it can grow 20 - 33 metres tall. The bole is often short, it can be straight or tortuous, around 40 - 90cm in diameter, with large thin flanging buttresses at the base or steep butt flares up to 6 metres high, these sometimes spreading to form surface roots[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description 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/ ]. It is a medium-sized tree with an often short and irregular bole. It is occasionally felled for its brown, moderately heavy timber, e.g. In Sierra Leone and Gabon, but is generally too scarce to be important[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].