Aframomum sulcatum
(Oliv. et Hanb. ex Baker) K. Schum.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
MBG
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit, Leaves - flavouring
The fruit pulp is eaten raw. The dried leaves are used for flavouring.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in forest and forest clearings.
Africa, Cameroon, Central Africa, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinée, Liberia, Sierra Leone, West Africa,
How to Identify
A ginger family plant. It has a slender rhizome and a very short flower stalk. The leafy stems grow 4 m tall. They have a reddish tinge. The flowers are pale red to orange-yellow. The fruit have narrow grooves and are edible. The seeds are shiny.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Aframomum sulcatum is a species of plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by Daniel Oliver, Daniel Hanbury, and John Gilbert Baker and got its current name from Karl Moritz Schumann.
Notes
There are about 50 Aframomum species.
Names & Synonyms
References (9)
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