Representative bark texture, not a photograph of a documented Ɔdanwoma — a species-verified image is still to come.

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Ɔdanwoma

African Locust Bean (timber)

Piptadeniastrum africanum

Where It Grows

Ashanti Region

Adanwomase — Nana Ananse Nipadua's own home village — the weaving town of Adanwomase, Kumasi — is named for this tree.

Approximate — anchored to the nearest known place name.

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Why It's Protected

A canopy hardwood of the same high-forest belt as Odum and Ɔfram, increasingly rare outside protected reserves as farmland and settlement expand around Kumasi.

Uses & Benefits

—Timber for construction
—Bark used in traditional remedies
—Root system stabilises forest-edge soil against erosion

If you would not let a human being die, why would you let a forest burn? Every material is alive — the tree is not a metaphor. The tree is ancestor.

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