Uvaria baumannii
Engl. & Diels
AnnonaceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit is eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in the wet forests. It grows at low altitudes.
Africa, Benin, Cameroon, Central Africa, Central African Republic, Congo DR, Congo R, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togo, 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 scrambling tropical tree of the Annonaceae family found in wet forests at low altitudes.
Names & Synonyms
Uva baumannii (Engl. & Diels) Kuntzel
Uvaria engleriana ExellUvaria verrucosa Engl. & Diels
References (2)
- Bele, M. Y. et al, 2011, Ethnobotanical survey of the uses of Annonaceae around mount Cameroon. African Journal of Plant Science Vol. 5(4): 237-247. http://www.academicjournals.org/ajps
- Focho, D. A., et al, 2010, An ethnobotanical investigation of the annonaceae on Mount Cameroon. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research 4(20): 2148-2158
