Lost Crops of Africa Volume III: Fruits (2008) / Chapter Skim
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This is important for food security: monkey orange has been called, "A great and precious resource in times of crop failure." Of all Africa's native fruits, these are perhaps the most "conventional." They are similar in size and shape to apple, pear, and orange trees. Given horticultural attention, they probably can be raised with equal facility.
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Although high prices, high productivity, and great shelf life make for success in any fruit, capitalizing on that promise in an organized way requires that much more be done. The priorities for domestication given in other chapters are also relevant with monkey oranges.
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International Centre for Underutilised Crops, Southampton, UK; see icuc-iwmi.org. 4 Notably the bushveld of Gauteng (western Transvaal)
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312 LOST CROPS OF AFRICA Green monkey orange, Luphisis village, South Africa. The trees that yield monkey oranges make excellent additions to gardens, parks, streets, and fencelines -- providing not only food but also shade, shelter, and erosion protection.
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8 This small thorny shrub or small tree (6-10 m) is very similar to corkybark monkey orange.
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of 16 wild fruits tested, although these levels may be exceptional or anomalous, as the fruit is not normally considered oily.9 Two basic fruiting forms of this tree are distinguished. One, the so-called sweet type, has sugar-rich fruits clustered on short stalks.
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Not for nothing are they named monkey oranges. Indeed, the fruits are eagerly sought by monkeys, as well as by forest antelopes, or even by both together.
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