Strychnos cocculoides
Common Name:Natal orange Description Strychnos cocculoides is a shrub or small tree, 2-8 m high, with a compact, rounded crown;… Read More »Strychnos cocculoides
Annuals
Saba senegalensis
Common Name:Nsaban, kabaa Description Saba senegalensis is a liana up to 40 m long, often shrub like; trunk up to… Read More »Saba senegalensis
Eragrostis tef
Common Name:Tef Description Eragrostis tef is an annual cereal grass belonging to the family of the Poaceae.Teff is a C4 plant and is an intermediate between… Read More »Eragrostis tef
Detarium microcarpum
Common Name:Sweet Detar Description Detarium microcarpum (Bambara: Ntamajalan), commonly known as sweet detar, sweet dattock or tallow tree, is an under-utilized tree legume that… Read More »Detarium microcarpum
Allanblackia stulhmanii
Common Name:Allanblackia Description Allanblackia stuhlmannii is a tall evergreen forest tree to 40 m tall, with a straight, occasionally buttressed… Read More »Allanblackia stulhmanii
Solanum scabrum
Common Name:African Nightshade Description Solanum scabrum, also known as garden huckleberry,is an annual or perennial. The origin of the species… Read More »Solanum scabrum
Dioscorea dumetorum
Common Name:Bitter yam Bitter yam is a perennial climbing plant producing spiny stems up to 10 metres long from a… Read More »Dioscorea dumetorum
Ximenia caffra
Common Name: Sour plum Description Ximenia caffra is a sparsely branched shrub or small tree to 6 m tall with… Read More »Ximenia caffra
Vicia faba
Common Name: Favabean Description Vicia faba, also known as the broad bean, fava bean, faba bean, field bean, bell bean,… Read More »Vicia faba
Cucumis metuliferus
Common Name: Horned Melon Description Cucumis metuliferus, horned melon or kiwano, also African horned cucumber or melon, jelly melon, hedged… Read More »Cucumis metuliferus