Cola simiarum
Sprague ex Brenan & Keay
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Meise Botanic Garden
Description
A large tree in the mallow family growing to 28 m high with a trunk about 1 m across. It grows by forest streams in the rainforests of West Africa.
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Edible Uses
The fruit and seeds are eaten as a masticatory (chewed).
Distribution
It is a tropical plant. It grows by forest streams in the rain-forests in West Africa,
Where It Grows
Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, West Africa,
Notes
Also put in the family Sterculiaceae.
Also Known As
Golui, Ndaluei, Tohn-we-eh
References (2)
- Burkill, H. M., 1985, The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5. Kew.
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
