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Name:
Common name:
Entandrophragma caudatum → Wooden banana, Mountain mahogany
Synonym:
Entandrophragma caudatum → Pseudocedrela caudata, (Sprague)
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Meliaceae → Entandrophragma → caudatum → Entandrophragma caudatum → Thomas Archibald Sprague, 1910
Protection status:
Location:
Size of the dried fruit:
Length: 12,8 cm
Diameter: 9,2 cm
Weight:
Mountain mahogany grows into deciduous trees up to 30 m tall with trunk diameters of up to 2 m. When unripe, the woody fruit resembles a cigar in shape. Only in the ripening process does the fruit body open its outer shell to release the large winged seeds and is strongly reminiscent of a half-peeled banana, hence its common name "wood banana".
