Lost Crops of Africa Volume III: Fruits (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Like the grape of international commerce, African tree grapes have multiple uses. They make a very good jam.
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These versatile wild resources are well worth exploratory research. Tree grapes are plants that could especially reward adventurous botanists, horticulturalists, and ethnologists.
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Tree grapes are notoriously difficult to propagate vegetatively.2 This poses a problem because plants grown from seed take years before they start flowering, and growers must wait an inordinate time before learning whether an individual tree is male, female, hermaphrodite, or hermaphrodite-but-functionallyfemale, and whether the fruit is worth eating. The adventurous souls who address such challenges typically plant groups of seeds, and then later rogue out all of the unwanted types.
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Throughout much of southern Africa, kids squeezing tree grapes between their fingers and shooting the pulp into their mouths is a common sight. Lannea discolor (Sond.)
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Rich. Notably common from Senegal to Niger and Benin, this West African tree grape is found as far to the east as Cameroon and the Central African Republic.8 A tall tree (up to 18 m)
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Engl. West Africa.
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