English: Tallow tree; Lacewood.
Region: western central Africa, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Congo, Uganda.
Habitat: rain-forests.
Heart: hypertension.
Use: medicinal; wood for hut-building, walls, doors, window-frames, planks, poles, mine pit-props, bridge-piles; twigs as candlesticks, chew-sticks, tooth-picks; fruits give Allanblackia Oil.
BotanyCommon, medium-sized, evergreen, understory tree; 30 meters tall; dioecious.
Stem: wood resistant to termites, not particularly durable, easy to work, finishes well; bark contains a sticky yellow resin, anodynal.