East African yellowwood

It is a medium-sized tree, growing 20-40 m tall, rarely to 50 m, with a trunk diameter of 50-80 cm. The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 2-6 cm long and 3-5 mm broad on mature trees, larger, to 10 cm long and 6 mm broad on vigorous young trees. The seed cones are highly modified, with a single 2 cm diameter seed with a thin fleshy coating borne on a short peduncle. The mature seed is purple, and is dispersed by birds and monkeys which eat the fleshy coating. The pollen cones are solitary or in clusters of two or three on a short stem.

* Wood info: Afrocarpus gracilior (in Dutch) * Dallimore, W., & Jackson, A. B. (1966). A Handbook of Coniferae and Ginkgoaceae, 4th ed., revised. Edward Arnold. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia. More