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Xylopia aethiopica

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the fruit was exported to Europe as a 'pepper.' In the eastern part of Nigeria, the plant's fruit is an essential ingredient in preparation of local soups to aid new mothers in breastfeeding. It remains an important item of local trade throughout Africa as a spice, and flavouring for food and for
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and dysenteric conditions, or as a mouthwash to treat toothaches. It has also been used as a medicine for biliousness and febrile pains. The bark, when steeped in palm wine, is used to treat asthma, stomach-aches and rheumatism.
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Mitani, M. 1999. Does fruiting phenology vary with fruit syndrome? An investigation on animal-dispersed tree species in an evergreen forest in south-western Cameroon. Ecological Research, 14:371-383.
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is used to make doors and partitions. The wood is known to be resistant to termite attack and is used in hut construction: posts,
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family that can grow up to 20m high. It is a native to the lowland rainforest and moist fringe forests in the
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Harris, D.J.; Moutsamboté, J.-M.; Kami, E.; Florence, J.; Bridgewater, S. & Wortley, A.H. (2011).
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medicine. The fruit is sometimes put into jars of water for purification purposes.
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An infusion of the plant's bark or fruit has been useful in the treatment of
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that is the country's spiritual beverage and the traditional drink of the
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Entry for Xylopia aethiopica Dunal A. Rich.: family ANNONACEAE
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Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève
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This species is present in the following countries:
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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Magnoliids
Magnoliales
Annonaceae
Xylopia
Binomial name
Dunal
A. Rich.
evergreen
Annonaceae
savanna
Africa
grains of Selim
spice
herbal medicine
Ghana
Togo
tropical Africa
savanna
Angola
Benin
Burkina Faso

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