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Strychnos_spinosa
Strychnos spinosa
Strychnos spinosa is a small, thorny tree of the family Loganiaceae.
Description:
It is a tree with opposite leaves, oval, pointed at their extremities, with white flowers in high corymbs. It produces green and then orange-yellow fruit at maturity known as monkey oranges or Natal oranges (Natal orange). These fruits have a very hard shell (exocarp), they contain in the middle of an edible pulp many dark brown flat seeds which contain strychnine and other alkaloids.
Use :
In East Africa different resources are derived from this plant:
the young leaves are boiled and eaten with shea butter among the gourounsi of west central burkina faso.
The pulp can be dried and preserved.
Bark and roots are used in traditional medicine against stomach ache.
Ripe open fruit is used as bait for hunters to attract bush pigs.
The marketing of the fruits of this tree originating from Africa and Madagascar and adapted to the arid regions, is, beyond their traditional uses, studied in Israel.