Prunus africana (Hook.f.) Kalkm. [family ROSACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 4
Names
Prunus africana (Hook.f.) Kalkm. [family ROSACEAE]
Pygeum africanum Hook.f. [family ROSACEAE]
Common names
English red stinkwood, bitter almond (E Africa, south central Africa). WEST CAMEROONS: BAMILEKE alumty (JMD)
Uses
(fruit) Food: general (leaf) Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavourings (leaf) Medicines: generally healing (bark) Medicines: stomach troubles (bark) Medicines: tumours, cancers (all parts) Phytochemistry: hydrogen cyanide Phytochemistry: arrow-poisons (bark (purgative, cattle)) Agri-horticulture: veterinary medicine (wood) Products: building materials (bark) Products: fibre (wood) Products: carpentry and related applications (wood) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (wood) Products: fuel and lighting
Products
english: Red stinkwoodenglish: Stinkwood, redenglish: Bitter almondenglish: Almond, bitter
Description
An evergreen tree to 25 m or more high, with bole up to 1 m diameter by 10 m long before branching, crown spherical, much-branched; of the evergreen forest; in the montane areas of W Cameroons and Fernando Po, and widely dispersed in the mountainous parts
References
References:1. Adamson B .4356, K. 2. Arthurs 2 (Game Dept.), K. 3. Dale & Greenway, 1961: 406, as Pygeum africanum Hook.f. 4. Dalziel, 1937: 170, as Pygeum africanum Hook.f. 5. Eggeling 1270, K. 6. Eggeling & Dale, 1952: 335, as Pygeum africanum Hook.f. 7
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Prunus africana (Hook.f.) Kalkm. [family ROSACEAE]
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