Astronium fraxinifolium is a hardwood timber tree, which is native to Amazon rainforest, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. Common names include kingwood, locustwood, tigerwood, and zebrawood. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. It is grouped with two other species of Astronium under the Portuguese name gonçalo alves, also known as tigerwood.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Astronium fraxinifolium being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Myracrodruon urundeuva
- Astronium graveolens
- Cedrela odorata
- Spondias pinnata
- Cedrela dugesii
- Garuga pinnata
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Sapindales
- Family
- Anacardiaceae
- Genus
- Astronium
- Species
- Astronium fraxinifolium
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