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href="/wiki/Moraceae" title="Moraceae">Moraceae</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Tribe: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moreae" title="Moreae">Moreae</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Genus: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Milicia_(plant)" class="mw-redirect" title="Milicia (plant)"><i>Milicia</i></a><br /><small><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Robertson_Sim" title="Thomas Robertson Sim">Sim</a></small> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(180,250,180)">Species </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: left"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Milicia_excelsa" title="Milicia excelsa">Milicia excelsa</a></i><br /> <i><a href="/wiki/Milicia_regia" title="Milicia regia">Milicia regia</a></i> </p> </td></tr> </tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238732961">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:transparent}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:white}}.mw-parser-output .infobox.biota .taxobox-edit-taxonomy img{background:transparent!important}body.skin-vector .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox{margin-top:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox tr.taxonrow td{padding:2px 10px}</style> <p><b>Iroko</b> (<a href="/wiki/Yoruba_language" title="Yoruba language">Yoruba</a>: Ìrókò) is a large <a href="/wiki/Hardwood" title="Hardwood">hardwood</a> tree from the west coast of tropical <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a> that can live up to 500 years.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is the common name for the genus <i><b>Milicia</b></i>, in which there are two recognized species, which are closely related: <i><a href="/wiki/Milicia_excelsa" title="Milicia excelsa">Milicia excelsa</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Milicia_regia" title="Milicia regia">Milicia regia</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The genus name of <i>Milicia</i> is in honour of Milici (19th and 20th centuries), an administrator in Portuguese East Africa (in modern-day <a href="/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique">Mozambique</a>) who supported the work of the author of the genus, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Robertson_Sim" title="Thomas Robertson Sim">Thomas Robertson Sim</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was first described and published in Forest Fl. Port. E. Afr. on page 97 in 1909.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The tree is known to the <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> as <span title="Yoruba-language text"><i lang="yo">ìrókò</i></span>, <span title="Yoruba-language text"><i lang="yo">logo</i></span> or <span title="Yoruba-language text"><i lang="yo">loko</i></span> and is believed to have healing properties.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Iroko is known to the <a href="/wiki/Igbo_people" title="Igbo people">Igbo people</a> as <span title="Igbo-language text"><i lang="ig">ọjị</i></span> wood.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is one of the woods sometimes referred to as <b>African teak</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although it is unrelated to the <a href="/wiki/Teak" title="Teak">teak</a> family. The wood colour is initially yellow but darkens to a richer copper brown over time. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iroko_tree.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Iroko_tree.jpg/220px-Iroko_tree.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Iroko_tree.jpg/330px-Iroko_tree.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Iroko_tree.jpg/440px-Iroko_tree.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Iroko tree</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Names_in_Other_Languages">Names in Other Languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iroko&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Names in Other Languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_language" title="Yoruba language">Yoruba</a> : Ìrókò, Ùróko</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gbe_languages" title="Gbe languages">Gbe languages</a> : Loko, Roko<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sranan_Tongo" title="Sranan Tongo">Sranan Tongo</a>: Loko <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igbo_language" title="Igbo language">Igbo</a>: Ọ́jị̀</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edo_language" title="Edo language">Edo</a> : Uloko</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urhobo_language" title="Urhobo language">Urhobo</a> : Uno</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Tano_languages" title="Central Tano languages">Akan languages</a> : Odum<sup id="cite_ref-AfricanPast_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AfricanPast-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kongo_language" title="Kongo language">Kikongo</a> : Kambala</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ijaw_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ijaw language">Ijaw</a> : Olokpata</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagham_language" title="Jagham language">Ejagham</a> : Nsan<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Species">Species</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iroko&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Species"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Iroko is yielded mostly (probably) by <i><a href="/wiki/Milicia_excelsa" title="Milicia excelsa">Milicia excelsa</a></i>. In much of the literature on this timber the names of the trees that yields it are given as <i><a href="/wiki/Chlorophora_excelsa" class="mw-redirect" title="Chlorophora excelsa">Chlorophora excelsa</a></i> (syn. <i>Milicia excelsa</i>) and <i><a href="/wiki/Chlorophora_regia" class="mw-redirect" title="Chlorophora regia">Chlorophora regia</a></i> (syn. <i><a href="/wiki/Milicia_regia" title="Milicia regia">Milicia regia</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Milicia_excelsa" title="Milicia excelsa">Milicia excelsa</a></i> is currently listed as 'near threatened' on the IUCN Red List.<sup id="cite_ref-IUCN_Red_List:_Milicia_excelsa_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IUCN_Red_List:_Milicia_excelsa-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Both species are <a href="/wiki/Dioecious" class="mw-redirect" title="Dioecious">dioecious</a>, with male and female flowers on separate individuals.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uses">Uses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iroko&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iroko-piece.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Iroko-piece.jpg/250px-Iroko-piece.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Iroko-piece.jpg/330px-Iroko-piece.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Iroko-piece.jpg/500px-Iroko-piece.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="965" /></a><figcaption>A specimen of Iroko wood</figcaption></figure> <p>The timber is used for a variety of external and internal purposes<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including boat-building, domestic flooring, furniture and outdoor gates. From the late 1990s, it was used as part of the <a href="/wiki/Txalaparta" title="Txalaparta">txalaparta</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Basque_music" title="Basque music">Basque</a> musical instrument constructed of wooden boards, due to its lively sound.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Iroko is one of the traditional <a href="/wiki/Djembe#Shell" title="Djembe">djembe</a> woods. Iroko wood was the wood chosen for the <a href="/wiki/Pew" title="Pew">pews</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Peace_Basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Our Lady of Peace Basilica">Our Lady of Peace Basilica</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is a very durable wood;<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> iroko does not require regular treatment with oil or varnish when used outdoors, although it is very difficult to work with tools as it tends to splinter easily, and blunts tools very quickly.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the UK there are no trade restrictions on the machining of this timber. The only reported adverse effects known to be caused by the dust from iroko are <a href="/wiki/Asthma" title="Asthma">asthma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dermatitis" title="Dermatitis">dermatitis</a> and nettle rash.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_beliefs">Cultural beliefs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iroko&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cultural beliefs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The tree is feared in some cultures where it originates and hence is shunned or revered with offerings.<sup id="cite_ref-Twilight_Tales3_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Twilight_Tales3-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> people believe that the tree possess an animating force/spirit (Olúwéré), and anybody who sees the 'Iroko-man' face to face becomes insane and speedily dies.<sup id="cite_ref-Ogumefu1929_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ogumefu1929-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the Yoruba, any man who cuts down any iroko tree causes devastating misfortune on himself and all of his family,<sup id="cite_ref-Ogumefu1929_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ogumefu1929-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although if they need to cut down the tree they can make a prayer afterwards to protect themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>They also claim that the spirit of the Iroko can be heard in houses which use iroko wood, as the spirit of the Iroko is trapped in the wood.<sup id="cite_ref-Ogumefu1929_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ogumefu1929-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a> the iroko wood is of much lower quality due to soil conditions as well as root-rot.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some Westerners refer to the wood as "poor man's <a href="/wiki/Teak" title="Teak">teak</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iroko&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> </ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iroko&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output 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