Stinkwood

Stinkwood is the common name for a number of trees or shrubs which have wood with an unpleasant odour, including:

• Celtis africana (White stinkwood) – native to South Africa
• Celtis mildbraedii (Natal white stinkwood, red-fruited white-stinkwood) – native to Tropical Africa
• Coprosma foetidissima; in New Zealand and extends south to the Auckland Islands
• Coprosma putida – endemic to Lord Howe Island
• Foetidia mauritiana – native to Reunion and Mauritius
• Gyrocarpus americanus, pantropical tree in Hernandiaceae family
• Jacksonia furcellata (Grey stinkwood) – native to Australia
• Jacksonia sternbergiana (Green stinkwood) – native to Australia
• Ocotea bullata (Black stinkwood, true stinkwood) – native to South Africa
  • other species of Ocotea, e.g. Ocotea foetens (Til, tilo), native to Macaronesia
• Prunus africana (Red stinkwood) – native to montane Subsaharan Africa
• Zieria arborescens – native to Australia