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 203

Table A10.1. Continued

Scientific, English and
French names

Uses

Vitellaria paradoxa Food (butter from seeds), medicine (butter to treat gastric ulcer

Shea nut tree and dry skin, butter as base for bactericidal skin creams and

Karité, arbre à beurre beauty creams), soap (from low-quality butter), forage (host of

parasitic plant ( Tapinanthus pentagonia ) which is used as forage)

Vitex doniana Food (fresh fruit), firewood, wood products (softwood for planks,

Black plum tables, paper)

Prunier noir

Ximenia americana Food (fresh ripe fruit pulp), firewood, medicine (several medicines:

Wild plum seed oil, roots to treat syphilis and intestinal parasites, leaf for

Citron de mer stomach-ache and diarrhoea, leprosy, tranquillizer), firewood

(firewood and charcoal), fodder (from leaves), dye (extract from
leaves to dye clothes), house construction (timber of good quality
and very hard: poles and rafters)

Ziziphus mauritiana Food (fruit pulp to make cakes, porridge, high in vitamin C), drinks

Jujube (from fruit pulp), medicine (low dose extract from roots to treat

Jujubier gastric ulcers, vomiting and syphilis; fruit pulp and other

ingredients to treat anorexia; pulp and green beans for infant
food), household items (wood for tool handles), firewood, live
fence, fodder (from leaves), fishing (high-dose extract of roots to
kill fish), soil fertility improvement (leaf mulch)

Source: B. Kone (ICRAF), based on farmer surveys in Mali (unpublished data) and Fortin
et al. (2000).