bois de campêche (Berhaut)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
logwood., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
Flora
Entry for Haematoxylon campechianum L. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
Haematoxylon campechianumL. [family ]
Information
A smallish tree, with closely veined obovate-emarginate or subtruncate leaflets (sometimes the lowest pair replaced by a pair of 1–2-jugate pinnae), rather small yellow flowers in axillary racemes, and rather small flattened elliptic-oblong pods which open down the middle of the valves.
Notes
, the Logwood, native of Central America, the West Indies and ? French Guiana, is cultivated in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika (Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 44 (1953); T.T.C.L.: 103 (1949)).
