It has a medium structure with closed poles resembling maple. Annual rings are not always well defined. The pattern is grainy, which is barely noticeable. The picture is slightly wavy, silky. Sapwood and nuclear wood are indistinctly separated. The core is light, yellowish-brown, sometimes with a pink tinge. The color tends to darken with age. The texture is medium-fine with a moderate sheen. It has a light, pleasant smell, similar to cedar. Wood, in appearance reminiscent of birch.

Botanical name – Anegeria

Distribution – Anegre is common in the tropics of East and West Africa, mainly in Cameroon, but there are also natural reserves in Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zaire.