Common Name: African Nightshade
Description
European black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) or locally just black nightshade, duscle, garden nightshade, garden huckleberry, hound’s berry, petty morel, wonder berry, small-fruited black nightshade, or popolo) is a species in the Solanum genus, native to Eurasia and introduced in the Americas, Australasia, and South Africa. Parts of this plant can be toxic to livestock and humans. Nonetheless, ripe berries and cooked leaves of edible strains are used as food in some locales, and plant parts are used as a traditional medicine. A tendency exists in literature to incorrectly refer to many of the other “black nightshade” species as “Solanum nigrum”.. . . . .Read more
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Cleome gynandra
Common Name: Spiderplant
Description
Cleome gynandra is a species of Cleome that is used as a green vegetable. It is known by many common names including Shona cabbage[, African cabbage, spiderwisp, cat’s whiskers,and stinkweed. It is an annual wildflower native to Africa but has become widespread in many tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world. It is an erect, branching plant generally between 25 cm and 60 cm tall. Its sparse leaves are each made up of 3-5 oval-shaped leaflets. The flowers are white, sometimes changing to rose pink as they age. The seed is a brown 1.5mm diameter sphere. The leaves are edible. . . . .Read more
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Sphenostylis stenocarpa
Common Name: Yambean
Description
Sphenostylis is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. Sphenostylis contains several species useful as food sources including Sphenostylis stenocarpa.
Sphenostylis stenocarpa belongs to the Fabaceae family characterized by its fruit (legume) and stipulated leaves. . . . .Read more
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Ricinodendron heudelotii
Common Name:Njansang, ground nut tree
Description
Ricinodendron heudelotii is a fast-growing tree, reaching up to 50 m in height and 2.7 m in girth; bole straight with short buttress; bark grey, smooth at first, becoming scaly with ageing; slash dark red, densely mottled with scattered pits and orange stone-cell granules.
Leaves alternate, digitately 3-5 foliate; leaflets sessile or subsessile, glandular, denticulate, often white-felted on the underside at 1st with stellate pubescent hairs, becoming .…Read more
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