Indigenous West African hardwood, Baphia nitidia, having various uses, including for house posts and rafters, walking sticks, medicines, and for the pigment tukula produced from its dark red heartwood. For similar wood of the species Pterocarpus, also used to make tukula, use "barwood."
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3000262510
13yrs ago
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