Astronium fraxinifolium
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Astronium fraxinifolium is a timber tree, which is native to Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. Common names include kingwood,{{GRIN | accessdate=21 November 2014}} locustwood, tigerwood, and zebrawood. It is known in Portuguese as Gonçalo-alves. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. It is also used to make hardwood such as tigerwood.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090429035624/http://www.exotichardwoods-southamerica.com/goncaloalves.htm Astronium fraxinifolium]
- {{in lang|pt}} [http://www.arvores.brasil.nom.br/cerrd/aroeipt.htm Astronium fraxinifolium] photo
- {{in lang|pt}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311043551/http://umbuzeiro.cnip.org.br/db/pnechk/taxa/118.html Astronium fraxinifolium]
- {{in lang|pt}} [http://florabrasiliensis.cria.org.br/search?taxon_id=7994 Flora Brasiliensis: Astronium fraxinifolium]
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Category:Endemic flora of Brazil
Category:Trees of the Amazon rainforest
Category:Flora of the Atlantic Forest
Category:Vulnerable flora of South America
Category:Plants described in 1827
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