Wild Flowering Plants

Lauraceae
Aniba ramageana   Mez
Lowyé kannèl
Windward Islands.
Rare tree of lower montane rainforest.
A famous tree with excellent wood for furniture, over-exploited in the past to the point of extinction. Old stumps are often seen as the wood is very resistant to rotting. Now recovering naturally in the rainforest reserve and also by forestry plantings.
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