EPPO Global Database

Argania spinosa(ARJSI)

Overview
Code created in: 2001-11-13

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: ARJSI
  • Preferred name: Argania spinosa
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Skeels

Notes

Native to Southwest Mediterranean, western Saharan Africa. A valuable oil is extracted from the kernels.


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Argania sideroxylon Roemer & Schultes
Sideroxylon spinosum Linnaeus

Common names
Name Language
argan English
ironwood English
afrikanischer Arganbaum German
marokkanischer Eisenholzbaum German
Schlangenhautbaum German
arganier French
bois d'Argan French
bois de fer French
olivier du Maroc French
argan Spanish
argània Spanish
legno ferro del Marocco Italian
arganboom Dutch
arganie Dutch
argânia Portuguese
argan Swedish
аргания Russian
argane Arabic
arqân Arabic
أركان Arabic