Diospyros mabacea epithet "mabacea" is from the Latin, "resembling Maba" As this plant was originally placed in the genus "Maba". The original specimen was collected by Charles Moore at the Tweed River. Regeneration from seed is slow and difficult. Diospyros mabacea Diospyros mabacea, the red-fruited ebony is a rare rainforest tree in the ebony or persimmon family growing in north eastern New South Wales. Listed as endangered by extinction. Found at only thirteen sites in sub tropical rainforest near Murwillumbah and Mullumbimby (28° S), growing at low altutide. The original habitat is mostly destroyed by land clearing and housing. The current populations
Diospyros crassiflora for Conservation of Nature classifies it as an endangered species. Diospyros crassiflora Diospyros crassiflora, commonly known as Gabon ebony, African ebony, West African ebony, and Benin ebony, is a species of lowland-rainforest tree in the family Ebenaceae that is endemic to Western Africa. It is named after the West African state of Gabon, though it also occurs in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria. The wood this particular tree produces is believed to be the blackest of all timber-producing "Diospyros" species, and the heartwood from this tree has been in extremely