James A. Duke. Handbook of Energy Crops. The hard heavy wood is used for carpentry, construction, posts and tool handles. The bark is used for tanning and for dying fishermen's nets. Description Evergreen tree to 12 m tall and 30 cm diameter, with rounded or irregular spreading crown.
Pneumatophores often present.
Flowers mostly bisexual ca 5 mm long, bell-shaped, whitish. Both coasts of tropical America, northern Mexico to Brazil and Ecuador, Galapagos Island's and northwestern Peru. West Indies, Bermuda, southern and central Florida. Western Africa from Senegal to Cameroon. Harvested for fuel as needed.