This is a large to very large tree sometimes reaching 60 metres in height. It likes riverine forest conditions.
Price: $2.00
Flowers: (September to December)
White and sweetly-scented
Fruit:
An ovoid, woody capsule. The seeds are winged.
This was a very important timber in Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. In Mozambique, the stems were used to make dugout canoes.
Medicinal uses:
The bark is bitter, resembling quinine. In rural areas, Africans drink an infusion of this to relieve colds.
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