Pterocarpus angolensis (known locally as Mlombwa or African Teak) is a species of Pterocarpus native to southern Africa. It usually grows from 5 to 20 metres tall. Trees growing on good sites in full light can live for up to 100 years.
It is a deciduous tree usually growing to 16 m tall, with dark brown bark and a high, wide-crowned canopy of shiny compound leaves. In favoured wetter locations the trees are typically about 18–19 m tall. The leaves appear at the time of the flowers or shortly afterwards. It produces an abundance of scented, orange-yellow flowers in the spring. In southern Africa, this is usually just at the end of the dry season, often about mid-October.
The tree is a key timber species throughout its range, yielding a high quality wood.
Details
- Designer: L Curtis
- Printer: Questa Colour Security Printers Ltd (House of Questa)
- Process: Lithography
- Paper:
- Watermark: Cockerels
- Perf: 13.5 (comb)
- Cylinders: Printed in four panes, each divided by a gutter strip. Guillotined through horizontal gutter and distributed in sheets of two panes.
- 1A (Cyan) 1A (Yellow) 1A (Magenta) 1A (Black) : 1C (Cyan) 1C (Yellow) 1C (Magenta) 1C (Black)
- 1B (Cyan) 1B (Yellow) 1B (Magenta) 1B (Black) : 1D (Cyan) 1D (Yellow) 1D (Magenta) 1D (Black)
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