Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 4
Uses
(flower, fruit) Food: general (fruit) Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavourings (fruit) Food: sweets, sweetmets (fruit-juice) Drink: water/sap Medicines: generally healing (leaf-shoot) Medicines: pain-killers (fruit) Medicines: eye treatments (leaf, shoot) Medicines: antemetics (fruit) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (flower) Medicines: vermifuges (fruit) Medicines: anus, haemorrhoids (leaf, shoot) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (seed) Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants (seed) Medicines: menstrual cycle (seed) Medicines: lactation stimulants (incl. veterinary) (seed) Medicines: abortifacients, ecbolics (fruit) Medicines: fabrifuges (root) Medicines: food poisoning (leaf, stem, root) Phytochemistry: hydrogen cyanide (seed) Phytochemistry: fatty acids, etc. Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended Agri-horticulture: hedges, markers Products: building materials (sap) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants Products: carpentry and related applications (sap) Products: household, domestic and personal items
Description
A shrub, or small tree, native of eastern Indonesia, and now dispersed to many tropical countries, and found in cultivation across the W African region.The tree is ornamental, attaining 10 m height under good growing conditions of moist warm climate and d
References
References:1. Allen, BM, 1967: 128–31. 2. Bates, 1976: 13. 3. Burkill, IH, 1935: 271–2. 4. Chadha 1985: 500–2, with phytochemistry. 5. Claude & al., 1947. 6. Popenoe, 1920: 429–31 7 Quisumbing 1951: 439–41, 1035. 8. Uphof, 1968: 60. 9. Usher, 1974: 71. 10