Lost Crops of Africa Volume III: Fruits (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Usually red or yellow in color, these plum-sized delicacies lack the sourness typical of wild fruits (and of plums for that matter)
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Producing vastly more of these tasty fruits under more organized conditions seems eminently feasible. Seeds are difficult to germinate, but most (perhaps all)
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It occurs extensively, for example, in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the lowveld of South Africa. The trees yield exceptional quantities of reddish-yellow fruits, mottled with gray.
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is also commonly called gingerbread plum.6 It is found throughout both East and West Africa, and is well known, for instance, in both Tanzania and Gambia. It comes in two forms: One, a large tree (as much as 50 m tall)
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GINGERBREAD PLUM A purely West African species (formerly Parinari macrophylla Sabine; now Neocarya macrophylla (Sabine) Prance)
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The rind from fresh fruits is used to impart a pleasant scent to ointments. The living tree provides villagers with dye, glue, fodder, firewood, soap, structural materials, and even termite repellents (in the Gambia)
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