Improving Rural Livelihoods through Domestication of Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Parklands of the Sahel - Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Tropics: Domestication, Utilization and Commercialization - page 202

Table A10.1. Continued

Scientific, English and
French names

Uses

Elaeis guineensis Oil (from fruit), wine (from sap), medicine (unfermented sap to

Oil palm treat anorexia), fibre (from petiole for baskets)

Palmier à huile
Hyphaene thebaica Fibre (from leaves for mats, fans), food (fruit), wine (from sap),

Dum palm medicine (powder from fruit pulp to treat gastric ulcers), incense

Palmier doum (from roots), construction wood, windbreaks

Lannea microcarpa Food (fruit pulp, young leaves, roots), drinks (aromatic flavour

- from young leaves and dried fruit, beer from fermented fruit), oil

Raisinier (from seed), fodder (older leaves), feed for small animals (from

residue after extracting oil from seed), medicine (from leaves to
control vomiting and diarrhoea, from seed oil to treat dermatitis),
insecticide (from seed oil), dye (from bark for cloth and skin
decoration), house construction (impermeable solution to cover
banco walls obtained from residue after extracting oil from seed)

Landolphia heudellotii Food (fruit pulp)

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Parkia biglobosa Food (fresh fruit pulp, dried fruit pulp, protein-rich paste and cakes

African locust bean from seeds), medicine (from fruit pulp to treat protein deficiency in

Néré children, from bark to treat inflamed tonsils), animal food (dried

fruit pulp), medicine (paste from seeds to relieve hypertension),
house construction (fruit coats used as organic structural matrix
for banco walls; impermeable solution from fermented fruit coats
used to cover banco walls and fill cracks in banco), soil fertility
improvement (nitrogen fixation)

Prosopis africana Firewood and charcoal (especially for blacksmiths), food during

- drought (flour from seed), fodder (from fruit, young branches and

- leaves), medicine (from bark to treat plaque on teeth, from leaves

to relieve joint pain), household items (wood for mortars and
pestles, yokes for cattle, planks for house, doors, window trim,
handles for tools), soil fertility improvement (leaf mulch)

Sclerocarya birrea Food (fresh seeds, biscuits and cakes from seed, condiment for

Marula couscous, honey from flowers), drinks (fresh fruit juice and

Prunier africain fermented fruit juice), medicine (from bark to treat diabetes), house-

hold items (wood for chairs, handles for implements, masks, statues)

Strychnos spinosa Food (mature fruit pulp, juice), medicine (note: roots, leaves,

- unripe fruits and seeds are poisonous), firewood, shade

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Tamarindus indica Food (dried fruit pulp added to millet porridge, honey from

Tamarind flowers), drinks (fresh fruit juice), medicine (from fruit pulp to treat

Tamarinier constipation, counteract fatty foods and facilitate digestion; juice

from fruit pulp for antibiotic skin cream and beauty cream; from
bark to treat gingivitis and other oral inflammations), household
items (wood for tool handles)