Bilinga

Nauclea diderrichii

The wood is perfect golden yellow or yellow orange slightly mottled. Stable wood colour when used for interior applications. Well demarcated sapwood, medium texture. Also called Badi.

Origin: Cameroon

Possible end-uses: Sleepers, hydraulic works (even for seawater uses), exterior panelling, heavy carpentry, bridges, shipbuilding

Marketing: Logs

Physical and mechanical properties: Rather heavy and hard wood. Good stability