Lost Crops of Africa Volume III: Fruits (2008) / Chapter Skim
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These fruits are frequently seen for sale in markets across West Africa. In Mali, Burkina Faso, and neighboring nations it is also common to see young boys selling clusters of them along the roadways.
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This popular food remains a wild resource, but it holds much promise to help rural peoples produce highly salable products in some of the world's most horticulturally challenged regions. (Paul Latham)
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In addition to using trellises and pergolas, the concept of training these vines on trees should be evaluated. If successful, rubber fruits could raise the economic value of standing forests -- thereby dampening the ardor to burn those forests down for land or cut them up for lumber.
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5 is an "upwardly mobile" plant of tropical West Africa and the western Sudan. 3 A success rate of over 90 percent has been reported, but apparently the seeds must be clean and fresh; dirty seeds lose viability in just weeks.
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WILD PEACH This strong climber (Landolphia kirkii) abounds on rocky, wooded hillsides in eastern and southern Africa (Somalia to South Africa)
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DC.) occurs throughout most of tropical Africa from Senegal to Tanzania
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ETA The eta (Landolphia owariensis Beauv.) is found in tropical Central and West Africa.6 It grows as a vine in forest; as a shrub in savanna.
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Its flavor has been likened to guava, but so far no one has done much to explore the plant's crop potential. The fruit is found in essentially the same range as wild peach -- from Natal in South Africa through Mozambique and Tanzania, north as far as Somalia.
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1994. Composition and consumption of gathered wild fruits in the V-Baoulé, Côte d'Ivoire.
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