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West and Central Africa |
Description ......... Wet - Whole specimen (in spirit)
Acquisition .......... Dobson, G.E. ....... Date: 06.08.1879 ?
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Not assessed |
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E Africa |
Aromatic resin collected from the Frankincense tree is in worldwide demand for the cosmetic industry. Civil war in Somalia has turned attention away from…
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Bibhitaki · Coffin Tree · Cork Oak · Frankincense · Ironwood · Lesser Whitebeam |
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Eurasia and Africa |
Description ......... Wet - Whole specimen (in spirit)
Acquisition .......... High, J. ....... Date: [No data]
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Vulnerable |
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Common Blackbird · Common Cuckoo · Greater Horseshoe Bat · Pygmy Shrew |
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Wales |
Framed by the dramatic limestone cliff of Craig-Y-Cilau in Wales, grow some of the most rare trees in Britain. The lesser or least whitebeam…
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Least concern |
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Common Blackbird · Common Cuckoo · Greater Horseshoe Bat · Pygmy Shrew |
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N Africa and S Europe |
When stripped every ten years of its dense bark, the trunk of the Cork Oak glows amber, slowly changing from gold to rust red…
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Vulnerable |
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Brown-hawk Owl · Chinese Pangolin · Common Blackbird · Common Cuckoo · Greater Horseshoe Bat |
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China, Myanmar, Taiwan and Vietnam |
The dramatic limestone escarpments of North Vietnam drew us to the evocatively named “Coffin tree”. Growing up to 50m high and 3 metres across,…
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Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand |
Description ......... Wet; Female - Whole specimen (in spirit)
Acquisition .......... Hose, C. ....... Date: [No data]
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Sulawesi and nearby islands, Indonesia |
Description ......... Wet; Male - Whole specimen (mounted in spirit)
Acquisition ......... Hose, C. ......... Date: [No data]
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Vulnerable |
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Brown-hawk Owl · Common Cuckoo · Greater Horseshoe Bat · Greater Slow Loris · Hose's Langur · Spectral Tarsier |
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Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines |
What is remarkable about this tree is how slow growing it is, up to 0.5cm a year, yet if protected can reach up to…
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Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia |
Description ......... Wet; Male; Embryo - Whole specimen (in spirit)
Acquisition .......... Hose, C. ....... Date: [No data]
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Bibhitaki · Coffin Tree · Ironwood · |
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India, SE Asia |
Description ......... Wet - Whole specimen (in spirit)
Acquisition .......... Hose, C. ....... Date: [No data]
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Not assessed |
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Bengal Monitor Lizard · Brown-hawk Owl · Common Blackbird · Common Cuckoo · Greater Slow Loris · Hose's Langur · Spectral Tarsier |
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India and Southeast Asia |
A swift-growing giant canopy tree found mainly in the forests of North Western Ghats in India and throughout SE Asia, the Bibhitaki was brought…
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South central Asia and Southeast Asia |
Description ......... Wet - Whole specimens (in spirit)
Acquisition .......... "Hodgson" ....... Date: [No data]
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Endangered |
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Madagascar |
A wondrous tree, when David Gill of Global Trees Campaign told us it was endangered we decided that it should definitely be one of…
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Endangered |
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Chile and southwestern Argentina |
A tree entwined with childhood memories (how could a monkey ever climb those branches?) In our hometown of Dorking there are quite a few…
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