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
Solanum nigrum
Common Name: African Nightshade Description European black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) or locally just black nightshade, duscle, garden nightshade, garden huckleberry,… Read More »Solanum nigrum
Cleome gynandra
Common Name: Spiderplant Description Cleome gynandra is a species of Cleome that is used as a green vegetable. It is… Read More »Cleome gynandra
Sphenostylis stenocarpa
Common Name: Yambean Description Sphenostylis is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the… Read More »Sphenostylis stenocarpa