Tamanu

Calophyllum inophyllum, commonly called tamanu, oil-nut, mastwood, beach calophyllum or beautyleaf (kamani, bitaog and bintangur elsewhere), is a large evergreen tree native to the Old World tropics, from Africa through Asia to Australia and Polynesia. Austronesian peoples carried it across the Pacific for its timber, which built large outrigger ships. In many parts of Polynesia, mastwood groves planted at marae were considered sacred and the abodes of spirits, and the wood was carved into religious objects such as tiki. The oil from the fruit kernels was important in Polynesian culture, and the oil and poultices of leaves and flowers are used in traditional medicine. The mature fruit, the sap and the leaves are poisonous: the sap was used on Samoan arrows, and the fruit as rat bait.