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Guaiacum officinale (Lignum
vitae) Life
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Guaiacum officinale (Lignum
vitae), Schönbrunn Palm House, Vienna, Austria. [image H Robertson, Iziko ©] |
A tree native to the West Indies and Colombia, which yields a very hard wood
(regarded as the hardest wood in the timber trade).
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