Balsa vs Mongongo - What's the difference?
balsa | mongongo |
A large tree, , native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight.
(uncountable) The wood of this tree.
A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
A large, spreading tree of the Euphorbiaceae , found on wooded hills and among sand dunes, with distinctive hand-shaped leaves, whose pale yellow wood resembles balsa.
Its egg-shaped, velvety fruit, having a thin layer of edible flesh surrounding a highly nutritious nut.