Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 4
Common names
English fig tree (Liberia, Cooper & Record). SIERRA LEONE: MENDE nja-gnσne (def. -i) (FCD) kpσne (def. -i) (LP) TEMNE ka-noptho (FCD) LIBERIA: KRU-BASA blorh (C; C&R) MANO bo hu (Har.) wã (JMD) MENDE gonwi (C&R) IVORY COAST: ABE mporo (Aub.) ABURE domini (A Chev.) BAULE bofuain banzo
Uses
(fruit) Food: general (fruit) Medicines: generally healing (latex) Medicines: oral treatments (bark) Medicines: stomach troubles (bark) Medicines: emetics (bark) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (bark) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (fruit-juice) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (leaf) Medicines: abortifacients, ecbolics (bark, root, leaf) Medicines: leprosy (wood-ash) Phytochemistry: soap and substitutes Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended (fruit (pigs, birds)) Agri-horticulture: fodder (bark) Products: fibre (bark) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants (latex) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (wood) Products: carpentry and related applications (trunk) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (twig) Products: household, domestic and personal items
Description
A tree 5–20 m high, trunk up to 90 cm diameter with low buttresses or root-spurs, fruit cauliflorous near the base of the trunk, or geocarpic on branches running over or under the surface of the ground, even to 10 m long; of evergreen forest in moist, swa
References
References:1. Abbiw, 1990: 47, 109, 113, 125, 150, 168, 171, 193, 228. 2. Berg, 1990: 257. 3. Berg & al., 1984: 138 140–1. 4. ibid., 1985: 140–2. 5. Bouquet, 1969: 171. 6. Cooper & Record, 1931: 78–79. 7. Dalziel, 1937: 283. 8. Deighton 3362, K. 9. Deight
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