Lost Crops of Africa Volume III: Fruits (2008) / Chapter Skim
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, sweet detars are especially enjoyed in West Africa. Most are eaten fresh, but some are dried in the sun and sold in markets.
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All in all, sweet detars seem likely to make good backyard-, village-, and street trees, providing welcome shade and copious food. Among its other useful outputs are the following: Seeds The purple-brown, sweetly scented seeds have edible kernels.
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Rather, it occurs in outlying forests or farm fields where scattered specimens remain from the days the land was cleared. The wood is much sought-after, but neither sweet detar nor the several other Detarium species has yet been
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Prospects seem especially good in Senegal (notably in the tropical province called Casamance) , Gambia, and Sierra Leone where local interest in sweet detars is especially high.
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All in all, it seems likely to make good backyard-, village-, and street trees, providing welcome shade and environmental benefits, not to mention highly nutritious food. (Pat McGaw, Friends of Botanic Gardens of Trinidad and Tobago)
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Therefore, attempts via bud-grafting could be made to grow sweet detar in provenance trials in different parts of tropical Africa. Comparing various types under different environments will provide the means for evaluating their relative performances relatively quickly.
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