the Botanical name - Pterygota bequaertii.
German, English and Italian names - Mutenye.
Meets in rain woods of Nigeria and Cameroon. Other names: kefe (Nigeria), awari
(Ghana).
Wood of cream colour, sometimes with a grayish shade. Zabolon' and a kernel do not differ. Fibres putano-svilevatye. A structure moderately large. On radial cuts speckled drawing is sometimes observed.
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Tree Muteniya
Isplo'zovanie mature wood
Wood outwardly monophonic, shining, without patterns though on radial cuts drawing from year layers can be marked. Colour from whitish to is pale-brown, it is frequent with a pink shade. An arrangement of fibres from direct to voloknisto-svilevatogo. A structure from average to the large. Wood meets a pattern very seldom. The pattern anegre is very much allocated. As a result of it the interline interval is very decorative, especially in a combination to polishing and when the pattern incorporates under 90 °.
