Cola digitata

Description

A small tree. It grows 9 m high. The leaves are large. They are bunched at the ends of branches.

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Edible Uses

The fruit is used as a spice and flavouring in sauces and other dishes. The nuts and aril are also eaten.

Traditional Uses

CAUTION: There are risks involved with this plant. The fruit is used as a spice and flavouring in sauces and other dishes.

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Known Hazards

Caution: There are risks involved with this plant.

Distribution

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the lowland rain-forest as an under-storey plant.

Where It Grows

Africa, Benin, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Togo, West Africa,

Notes

Also put in the family Sterculiaceae.

Also Known As

Day-ne-waye

References (5)

• Burkill, H. M., 1985, The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5. Kew.
• Danforth, R.M., & Boren, P.D., 1997, Congo Native fruits. Twenty-five of the best. Privately published. p 49
• Keay, R.W.J., 1989, Trees of Nigeria. Clarendon Press, Oxford. p 133
• Menninger, E.A., 1977, Edible Nuts of the World. Horticultural Books. Florida p 40
• World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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