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Valued timber but neglected tree: mpingo (Dalbergia melanoxylon).
Chapter 23 1990
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For example, the African blackwood (also called grenadilla or mpingo) in grown in Tanzania and
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Sebastian has donated some mpingo tree seedlings to the wood carvers who have planted them around their carving site and workshop in Moshi.
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"I want them to plant 10,000 mpingo trees next year," says a beaming Sebastian.
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African Blackwood tree seedlings, a respectable amount considering they cut down about 1,500 mpingo trees every year.
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African Blackwood tree seedlings, a respectable amount considering they cut down about 1,500 mpingo trees every year.
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"I want them to plant 10,000 mpingo trees next year," says a beaming Sebastian.
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Sebastian has donated some mpingo tree seedlings to the wood carvers who have planted them around their carving site and workshop in Moshi.
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Known in Tanzania as African ironwood, African ebony, mpingo, poyi or mugembe (Brenan and Greenway, 1949; Gillet et al.,
Chapter 23 1990
reesetee commented on the word mpingo
Swahili word for the dense, purplish-brown wood of the East African tree Dalbergia melanoxylon--family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)--used for making woodwind instruments; the tree itself. Also called African blackwood, African ebony. In Zulu, umphingo.
October 1, 2008
avivamagnolia commented on the word mpingo
African Blackwood or Mpingo (Dalbergia melanoxylon) is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to seasonally dry regions of Africa from Senegal east to Eritrea and south to the Transvaal in South Africa.
January 17, 2009