Stinkwood, german Stinkholz, french Bois Puant, is the common name for a number of trees or shrubs which have wood or plant parts with an unpleasant odour, including:
Anagyris foetida; Southern Europe
Bignonia callistegioides (cipó d'alho); Southern Brasil
Celtis africana (white stinkwood); native to South Africa
Celtis mildbraedii (Natal white stinkwood, red-fruited white-stinkwood); native to Tropical Africa
Celtis timorensis; native to South and Southeast Asia
Coprosma foetidissima; in New Zealand and extends South to the Auckland Islands
Coprosma grandifolia; New Zealand
Coprosma putida; endemic to Lord Howe Island
Crateva tapia; (Páo, Pau or tapiá d'alho) Brasil to Central America
Cryptocarya latifolia (bastard stinkwood); South Africa
Dysoxylum alliaceum (german Knoblauchbaum); Southeast Asia
Eucryphia moorei; Southeast Australia
Fridericia elegans (cipó d'alho); Middle Eastern Brasil
Foetidia clusioides; native to Reunion and Mauritius
Foetidia mauritiana; native to Reunion and Mauritius
Frangula caroliniana (Syn.: Rhamnus caroliniana); Southern United States
Gallesia integrifolia (Syn.: Crateva gorarema) (german Knoblauchbaum, Páo, Pau d'alho); Brasil to Peru
Gustavia augusta; from South America
Gyrocarpus americanus; pantropical tree in family Hernandiaceae
Jacksonia furcellata (grey stinkwood); native to Australia
Jacksonia sternbergiana (green stinkwood); native to Australia
Juniperus sabina (german Stinkholz); Middle Europe to Asia
Lasianthus purpureus; Indonesia
Mansoa alliacea (cipó d'alho); Northern South America
Nyssa sylvatica; eastern to southeastern United States
Ocotea bullata (black stinkwood, true stinkwood); native to South Africa
other species of Ocotea, e.g. Ocotea foetens (Til, tilo), native to Macaronesia
Olax zeylanica (german Stinkholz); Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
Olax stricta (german Stinkholz); Eastern Australia
Owenia cepiodora (onionwood); Australia
Pararchidendron pruinosum ; Eastern Australia
Piscidia carthagenensis; Central America to Northern South America
Petersianthus macrocarpus (bastard stinkwood); South Africa
Pseudosmodingium perniciosum (Syn.: Rhus perniciosa); Western Mexico
Prunus africana (red stinkwood); native to montane Subsaharan Africa
Rhus aromatica; Eastern United States to Mexico and Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan
Seguieria americana (german Stinkholz, Knoblauchholz, as „Seguiera floribunda“, Páo, Pau or Cipó d'alho); Northern South America
Sorbus aucuparia (german Stinkholz); Europe to Western Russia, Iran
Sterculia foetida; India to Southeast Asia
Styphnolobium japonicum (Syn.: Macrotropis foetida); from South China
Sideroxylon foetidissimum; Florida, South Mexico, Guatemala, Antilles
Zieria arborescens; native to Australia
Index of plants with the same common name
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Stinkwood, german Stinkholz, french Bois Puant, is the common name for a number of trees or shrubs which have wood or plant parts with an unpleasant odour...
Ocotea bullata, (stinkwood or black stinkwood, Afrikaans: Stinkhout, Xhosa: Umhlungulu, Zulu: Umnukane) is a species of flowering tree native to South...
Celtis africana, the white stinkwood, is a deciduous tree in the family Cannabaceae. Its habit ranges from a tall tree in forest to a medium-sized tree...
pygeum (from its former scientific name, Pygeum africanum), iron wood, red stinkwood, African plum, African prune, and bitter almond. In other languages spoken...
Jacksonia sternbergiana, commonly known as stinkwood or green stinkwood, is a species of shrub or small tree that occurs in the south-west of Western Australia...
Angola and Tanzania. Common names include natal white stinkwood, red-fruited white-stinkwood and natal elm. This species is more common in Tropical Africa...
African hardwood trees like real yellowwood (Podocarpus latifolius), stinkwood (Ocotea bullata), and South African black ironwood (Olea capensis) are...
specimens of strangling fig, forest newtonia, big leaf, white stinkwood, chirinda stinkwood, knobthorn and many others. In the low-lying parts of the country...
adolfi-friderici Engl. (western and central Africa) Celtis africana Burm.f. – white stinkwood (Afromontane region) Celtis australis L. – European hackberry, European...
specimens of strangler fig, forest Newtonia, big leaf, white stinkwood, chirinda stinkwood, knobthorn and many others. In the low-lying parts of the country...
Coprosma foetidissima, commonly known as stinkwood or hūpiro, is a shrub native to New Zealand. Coprosma foetidissima is found throughout New Zealand...
Typical species are hardwoods of exceptional height, such as Yellowwood, Stinkwood and Ironwood trees. The Western Cape is climatologically diverse, with...
Ocotea foetens, commonly called til or stinkwood is a species of tree in the family Lauraceae. It is evergreen and grows up to 40 m tall. It is a common...
Jacksonia furcellata, commonly known as grey stinkwood, is a species of leafless broom-like shrub or small tree in the family, Fabaceae, that occurs in...
designed by Schalk Pienaar, were: Per saltire, I Or on a mount Vert a stinkwood tree proper; II & III Argent three bars wavy Azure; IV Vert the brig Knysna...
names include the helicopter tree, propeller tree, whirly whirly tree, stinkwood or shitwood. Gyrocarpus americanus is a slender, deciduous tree with smooth...
Western Cape. A stinkwood navigational beacon was first erected on Beacon Island in 1771. The original was a square block of stinkwood, inscribed with...
genera: Stinkwood can refer to several unrelated trees that have bad-smelling wood. Ocotea bullata is called black stinkwood or true stinkwood, and Ocotea...
quarried on site while Buiskop sandstone was used for the courtyards. Stinkwood and Rhodesian teak were used for timber and wood panelling. The roof tiles...
Coprosma putida, commonly known as stinkwood, is a flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. The Latin specific epithet putida means "stinking", alluding...
When South Africa became a republic outside the Commonwealth in 1961, a Stinkwood mace was used temporarily until 1963 when the Gold Producers' Committee...
African hardwood trees like real yellowwood (Podocarpus latifolius), stinkwood (Ocotea bullata), and South African black ironwood (Olea laurifolia) are...
Madagascar The wood of Foetidia mauritiana is one of several woods known as stinkwood because of its unpleasant smell. Commerson, Philibert, ex Lamarck, Jean...
quarried on site while Buiskop sandstone was used for the courtyards. Stinkwood and Rhodesian teak were used for timber and wood panelling. The roof tiles...
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