Lannea amaniensis — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit are eaten raw. They can be dried and stored.

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the lowlands and the highlands. It grows up to 1,100 m above sea level. It is often in swampy areas in forests. In Ethiopia it grows in areas with an annual rainfall of 1,500-2,000 mm.

Africa, Angola, Congo DR, Côte d'Ivoire, East Africa, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania,

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 tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk can be 100 cm across. It has a spreading crown. Plants are separately male and female. Fruit are 6-7 mm long and flattened and black.

How to Grow

Plants can be grown from fresh seed. Trees can be cut back and used as hedges and live fences.

Production

It is fast growing.

Other Information

It is a cultivated plant.

Notes

An unresolved name in The Plant List. Possibly a synonym of Lannea welwitschii

Names & Synonyms

Mumbu

References (3)

Burkill, H. M., 1985, The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1. Kew. (Also as Lannea amaniensis)
http://www.fao.org/forestry/25323-096344a3de335832e8f363c3ac5184a66.pdf (As Lannea amaniensis)
PROTA (As Lannea amaniensis)