African rosewood
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[edit]African rosewood (countable and uncountable, plural African rosewoods)
- A vernacular name for several plants:
- Millettia laurentii, a legume tree native to western central Africa that yields a wood called wenge.
- Species in the genus Guibourtia, including
- Guibourtia coleosperma, a tree species of Angola and some neighboring countries.
- Hagenia abyssinica (East African rosewood), a species of flowering plant native to high-elevation regions of central and eastern Africa.
- Pterocarpus erinaceus, or other African Pterocarpus spp.