Cola simiarum
Sprague ex Brenan & Keay
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Meise Botanic Garden
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit, Seeds - masticatory
The fruit and seeds are eaten as a masticatory (chewed).
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows by forest streams in the rain-forests in West Africa,
Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, West Africa,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
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.
Notes
Also put in the family Sterculiaceae.
Names & Synonyms
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
