Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 3
Uses
(young leaf) Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavourings (gum) Food: sweets, sweetmets (gum, leaf) Medicines: generally healing (gum, root) Medicines: naso-pharyngeal affections (flower) Medicines: stomach troubles (leaf) Medicines: skin, mucosae (leaf, seed) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (fruit, seed) Medicines: vermifuges (gum, seed) Medicines: anus, haemorrhoids (leap) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (flower) Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants (gum, seed) Medicines: venereal diseases (seed-oil) Medicines: leprosy (seed) Medicines: dropsy, swellings, oedema, gout (bark, seed-pod) Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents (seed) Phytochemistry: rodenticides, mammal and bird poisons (root) Phytochemistry: reptile-repellents (seed) Phytochemistry: fatty acids, etc. (flower) Phytochemistry: aromatic substances (seed) Phytochemistry: alkaloids Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended Agri-horticulture: hedges, markers Agri-horticulture: weeds, parasites (foliage) Agri-horticulture: fodder (bark, seed-pod) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants (bark, immature seed-pod) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (timber) Products: carpentry and related applications (timber) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (flower) Products: household, domestic and personal items (twig) Products: chew-sticks, etc.
Description
A much-branched spiny shrub or spreading tree, 2–6 m tall, in dry localities, on sandy or loamy soil, native of tropical America, and now cultivated and naturalised in drier parts of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, and recorded in the Reg
References
References:1. Ainslie, 1937: sp. no. 5. 2. Akinniyi & Sultanbawa, 1983. 3. Aubréville, 1959: 1: 202. 4. Berhaut, 1975,b: 454–6. 5. Burkill, IH, 1935: 20–22. 6. Chadha, 1985: 31–32, with chemistry of essential oil. 7. Dalziel, 1937: 205–6. 8. Howes, 1946.