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Camwood
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Camwood

Baphia nitida

Baphia nitida (camwood, also barwood), also known as African sandalwood, is a shrubby, leguminous., hard-wooded tree from central west Africa. This wood is of a very fine colour, and is used in woodturning for making knife handles and similar articles.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 139566.