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@Mr. Peet are you saying that the pictures I posted of my wood called Acupuri was positively identified by an expert to be Ekki?
@phinds
No. If you read through the old posts, I had asked Paul to lift your pictures so that I could forward them to a qualified wood anatomist in South Africa and she responded with
Lophira as the most likely genus.
It was identified with high confidence as
Lophira genus and 'Ekki' applies to several species in that genus and is the more common wood in commercial trade. 'Azobe' is most often associated with
Lophira procera. However, this species name has been changed to a synonym for
L. alata. The only other accepted species of "Lophira" is
L. lanceolata. So without a physical sample in hand, "Lophira genus" is as far as one can go with confidence. Even with the physical sample, there is a chance that the genus level is as far as can be reached.
I apologize if we mislead you, but would suspect that you have a 50% chance that it is 'Ekki'. There are about 140 common names for the 2 species in the 'Lophira' genus.
