Prota: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa - Timbers 1

18/02/2009 - Article

A new volume of the Prota encyclopaedia, which lists useful plants originating from tropical Africa.

The book Timbers is the first part of volume 7 of the Prota encyclopaedia on plant resources from tropical Africa. Volume 7 looks at the species used as timber, and comprises two parts. The first describes 511 species whose primary use is as timber. The species, belonging to 25 botanical families, are presented through some 280 articles. Part 2 will list the trees used as timber that belong to families not covered in the first part.
Prota is an international programme aimed at producing an encyclopaedia on more than 7000 useful plants from tropical Africa. All the books are available in English and French, and on CD-ROM. The articles are also available on line, on the Prota website.

PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale)
Timbers 1
Eds. Dominique Louppe (CIRAD - France), Andrew Oteng-Amoako (FORIG - Ghana) & Martin Brink (University of Wageningen - Netherlands)
Backhuys Publishers
Leiden, Netherlands, 2008.