Extracted from creamer wood。It grows mostly in the tropical rainforests between Senegal and Nigeria in Africa, where it is a hardwood, reaching an adult height of 15 to 20 meters and often hundreds of years old。
The creamwood blooms between December and March。The fruit, "shea nut" (or shea nut), has a delicious pulp like an avocado, and the oil in the pit is shea butter。