Limbas are 40-50 m high, with logs up to 30 m long and root boards up to 2.5 m high.

There is normally little difference in colour between heartwood and sapwood. Trunks may show a more or less irregularly shaped dark heartwood, but this is an undesirable brown discoloration and not a true heartwood formation. The colour of the limba can vary from pale yellow or grey-yellow to dark brown, sometimes with a greenish tinge. 

Limba is easy to work, both by hand and by machine, and can be sliced or peeled into veneer very well.

Applications: In the form of veneered panels, limba is used for furniture, interior panelling, interior doors, etc. Solid, it is used for mouldings, foundry castings, railings and other applications.