Haematostaphis barteri
Hook. f.
Blood plum
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Description
A tree. It grows 8 m high. It can be 65 cm around the trunk. The fruit is red-purple and fleshy with a stone inside. It is 2.5 cm long. The pulp is thin but edible. The kernels are oily and edible.
Edible Uses
The fruit is eaten raw, and the oily kernels from the stone are edible. The leaves are also eaten.
Traditional Uses
The fruit are eaten raw.
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Distribution
A tropical plant. It grows in tropical Africa in dry savannah. It can grow in arid places. It grows in northern Nigeria.
Where It Grows
Africa, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo, West Africa,
Other Information
Fruit tend to be available in the drier more hungry season.
Also Known As
Dole, Genbereni, Jan danyam, Shoure, Subtuluga, Tursuhi, Tursujee
References (14)
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- Chapman, J. D. & Chapman, H. M., 2001, The Forest Flora of Taraba and Andamawa States, Nigeria. WWF & University of Canterbury. p 164
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- Gilbert, T., et al, 2017, Diversity and local transformation of indigenous edible fruits in sahelian domain of Cameroon. Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences Vol. 26 (2): 5289-5300
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- Keay, R.W.J., 1989, Trees of Nigeria. Clarendon Press, Oxford. p 374
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- Umaru, H. A. et al, 2007, Levels of antinutritional factors in some wild edible fruit of Northern Nigeria. Africam Journal of Biotechnology Vol.6 (16) pp. 1935-1938
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