Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
573 African Nut Tree Leaf Food The protein-rich leaves are eaten as a cooked vegetable with dried fish and are used as forage for goats and sheep. 7,946
574 African Nut Tree Leaf Feed (Forage/Fodder) The protein-rich leaves are eaten as a cooked vegetable with dried fish and are used as forage for goats and sheep. 7,946
575 African Nut Tree Wood Industrial The wood, called ‘erimado’ or ‘essessang’ in trade, is very light, soft and perishable, but is occasionally used in carving and for making household utensils, furniture, boxes and crates. The wood is also suitable for boat building, sporting goods, toys and novelties, hardboard, particle board, plywood, wood-wool and wood-pulp. 7,946
576 African Nut Tree Bark Medicinal Bark of the root and stem is used in decoctions or lotions to treat constipation, cough, dysentery, rheumatism, rickets in children, oedema, elephantiasis, fungal infection, blennorrhoea, painful menstruation, and to prevent miscarriage, relieve pain in pregnant women, cure infertility in women, give strength to premature babies, and to mature abscesses, furuncles and buboes. 7,946
577 Barinas Nut Seed Oil (Food) The seeds are a source of an edible oil rich in linoleic acid (34.4%). 7,950
578 Barinas Nut Seed Oil (Fuel) The oil extracted from the shells and seeds is used as an illuminant. 7,950
579 Barinas Nut Wood Industrial The wood is not regarded as valuable or durable. It is used for furniture. The wood is used to make an excellent charcoal. 7,950
580 Barinas Nut Seed Medicinal Nuts and oil are an excellent cure for pulmonary complaints and dermatitis. 7,950
581 Bignay Fruit Food Ripe fruit can be eaten raw; it stains mouth and fingers. Unripe berries are rather sour and since the berries in a bunch do not ripen evenly, the fruit is often used to make jam or jelly. 7,952
582 Bignay Fruit Beverages Juice of fully ripened fruit serves as a refreshing drink and yields an excellent wine. 7,952
583 Bignay Leaf Food The young leaves are also eaten in salads and cooked with rice. 7,952
584 Candlenut Seed Industrial The fatty seed oil (kukui oil or lumbang oil) is not suitable for cooking, but is used in cosmetics, industrially (in paints, varnishes, linoleum, soap manufacture, wood preservation), for illumination (lamp oil, candles) and medicinally (mild purgative, embrocation for sciatica, against hair loss). In Indonesia the oil is used in the batik industry. For illumination, the oily kernels can be burnt as such, or pounded and made into candles. 7,969
585 Candlenut Seed Food The seeds of a type in Vanuatu are eaten without any apparent toxic effect. In Indonesia the residual oil cake is sometimes processed into a snack-food called ‘dage kemiri’. 7,969
586 Candlenut Seed Food In Indonesia there is a considerable internal trade in candlenuts, mainly with Java as the destination. Candlenut is traded and transported as stones or ‘nuts’. The seed of Aleurites moluccanus is an indispensable spice in Indonesian cuisine, where it is known as ‘kemiri’. 7,969
587 Candlenut Seed Feed (Forage/Fodder) The presscake is an excellent organic fertilizer rich in N and P; it should be used with caution as animal feed because of its toxic effects. 7,969
588 Candlenut Whole Ornamental Aleurites moluccanus is commonly planted in villages and as roadside tree. Its silvery-green foliage makes it an attractive ornamental in landscaping. 7,969
589 Candlenut Seed Medicinal In traditional medicine in Indonesia the seed is used as a laxative, pulped kernels are used in poultices to treat headache, fevers, ulcers, swollen joints and constipation. 7,969
590 Candlenut Bark Medicinal The bark is used to treat dysentery, the bark sap (mixed with coconut milk) to treat sprue, and boiled leaves are applied externally to treat headache and gonorrhoea. In Japan the bark is used to treat tumours. 7,969
591 Castor Oil Plant Seed Oil (Food) The seed contains 35 - 55% of an edible oil, used in cooking. It is used by the food industry to add butter and nut flavours to various foods. 7,977
592 Castor Oil Plant Seed Medicinal The oil from the seed is a very well-known laxative that has been widely used for over 2,000 years. It is considered to be fast, safe and gentle, prompting a bowel movement in 3 - 5 hours, and is recommended for both the very young and the aged. It is so effective that it is regularly used to clear the digestive tract in cases of poisoning. The seed is anthelmintic, cathartic, emollient, laxative, purgative. 7,977