The tree's best development is on ridges or slopes and high riverbanks. Boles are well formed, often clear for 40 to 80 ft, and basally swollen or buttressed in large trees. The wood is somewhat difficult to plane because of the interlocked grain. Sapwood, however, is responsive.
Tree exudes a rosin-like gum known commercially as South American copal.
Seed pods contain an edible pulp. 282-3Logs are delivered to a sawmill in southern Nigeria. Export of logs fro this region, as well as from most other tropical areas, is being restricted. M 150 282-2Band mills in Ghana are designed to handle logs 5 feet and more in diameter. 150 273-13 Shores spp.