African copaiba balsamtree

Daniellia oliveri, known as the African copaiba balsam tree, is a medium to large deciduous tree in the Fabaceae family (subfamily Detarioideae), reaching 15 to 25 metres in height with a broad, spreading crown. The bark is greyish, smooth on younger trees and becoming scaly with age, and exudes a fragrant, sticky oleoresin when wounded. Leaves are alternate, paripinnate, 20 to 30 centimetres long, with 6 to 11 pairs of opposite, oblong-elliptic leaflets that are leathery, glabrous, and 5 to 12 centimetres long. Young foliage emerges pinkish-red, giving flushing crowns a striking appearance. Flowers are small, whitish, fragrant, and crowded in dense terminal or axillary panicles produced before or with the new leaves. Fruits are flat, oblong, woody pods 5 to 8 centimetres long, releasing a single seed. The species occurs in savanna woodland across tropical West and Central Africa.