Antiaris

The gallery forests are dominated by Cynometra vogelii; the patches of dense dry forest by Isoberlinia doka, Anogeissus leiocarpus, Cola cordifolia, Antiaris africana, which is nationally threatened, Chlorophora excelsa (VU), and the edible akee Blighia unijugata.

Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire 2009

They used simple tools and their clothes were made from the bark of a toxic forest tree (Antiaris toxicaria) and lianas.

Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam 2008

Forests growing on patches of limestone are distinctive and are dominated by Tetrameles nudiflora, Antiaris toxicaria, Celtis cinnamomifolia, C. wightii, Cleistanthus sumatranus, Garuga floribunda, Pterospermum menglunense, Ulmus lanceaefolia, and Xantolis stenopetala.

Northern Indochina subtropical forests 2007

The Lama forest in south-central Benin is dominated by plant associations that include Milicia excelsa, Triplochiton scleroxylon, Antiaris africana, Diospyros mespiliformis, Afzelia africana, and Ceiba pentandra.

Eastern Guinean forests 2007

The curator told me that the upas (_Antiaris toxicaria_) was unquestionably intensely poisonous, juice and bark alike.

Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

The celebrated Upas tree of Java (_Antiaris toxicaria_) which has been the subject of so many romances, exploded by Dr. Horsfield [1], was supposed by Dr. Gardner to exist in Ceylon, but more recent scrutiny has shown that what he mistook for it, was an allied species, the _A. saccidora_, which grows at Kornegalle, and in other parts of the island; and is scarcely less remarkable, though for very different characteristics.

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

See Bennett's account of the _Antiaris_, in HORSFIELD'S

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

(Antiaris toxicaria) secretes a toxic sap used for arrow poison, but in The Loves of the Plants (part 2 of The Botanic Garden

Annotations 2007

Triplochiton scleroxylon), to the Moraceae family (Antiaris africana, Ficus spp.,

Nigerian lowland forests 2007