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Beli - Nomenclature
  • Common Name: Beli    
  • Scientific Name: Julbernardia pellegriniana
  • Family: Leguminosae 
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  • Local Names: Awoura, Beli, Ekop, Ekop-beli, Erop-beli, Zebrali, Zebreli

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Beli - Geography
  • Distribution: West Tropical Africa
  • Countries: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon
  • Habitat: Evergreen and deciduous forests, moist areas, preferring deep, humid soils
  • General: Large, discontinuous patches centered on the equatorial belt and between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Tropical and Subtropical Moist Forests (TSMF) are characterized by low variability in annual temperature and high levels of rainfall (>200 centimeter annually). Forest composition is dominated by semi-evergreen and evergreen deciduous tree species.​
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Local West Africa Tree Mythos: Every big tree has a spirit. Some trees house many spirits. Whether a tree is a spirit or is inhabited by a spirit is not an easy question. The people will say: The tree has a spirit, or: in the tree there is a spirit. The spirit has a voice which the careful listener can hear and even understand if he knows the language of the spirits. This voice has to be preserved carefully by the drum maker. The boat-maker too, wants to keep the spirit of the tree in the wood so that it will protect the boatman against drowning in the treacherous rivers, when the tree has become a boat. The appearance changes, the spirit remains. Together in a forest, the trees have a collective spirit, powerful enough to be revered as a god. In Honor of this majestic tree, Akashic Grove retains that spirit of the jungle in each of its unique pieces, offering the spirit a continued existence within this new form as your furniture centerpiece. 

Norse Beli Mythos: In Norse mythology Beli is a giant. He was killed by Freyr. In scaldic and Eddic poetry, Freyr is sometimes called "Beli's enemy" or "Beli's slayer" during the recounting of the wooing of Gerðr. The circumstances surrounding the event are not given but it is stated that since Freyr had given his sword to his servant Skírnir before sending him to court Gerðr, he was weaponless and therefore used the antler of a hart to kill the giant. When Gylfi expressed wonder that Freyr would give up his sword, Hárr dismissed his concern by saying that Freyr could have killed Beli with just his bare hands if he so wished, but then added that he would indeed regret his decision during the upcoming time of Ragnarök when Freyr would have to fight the sons of Muspell.

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Beli Tree - Characteristics 
  • Tree Size: 65-100 ft (20-30 m) tall,
  • Trunk Diameter: 3-5 ft (1-1.5 m) trunk diameter
  • Heartwood Color: Heartwood is a light brown, commonly with alternating darker stripes throughout. Quartersawn sections in particular exhibit a Zebrawood-like appearance. 
  • Sapwood Color: Wide sapwood is a pale yellow and is clearly demarcated from the heartwood, and lacks the darker stripes.
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