Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
143 Kindal Tree Bark Industrial Wood pale brown, smooth, very hard, a useful building wood, used in buildings for doors, windows, planks and rafters. Also used for furniture, cabinet making, ship building, dugouts, boats, carts, agricultural implements, mine props, poles and ply wood. The wood is used as fuel. The bark and fruits are used for dyeing. Bark and fruit contain tannin and are used for tanning. 7,184
147 Kindal Tree Bark Medicinal Bark diuretic, cardiotonic, used in parotitis; flower anticholerin and used in opium poisoning. 7,184
148 Kinkeliba Leaves and petioles Medicinal A leaf decoction, in vapour baths or washes, is used to treat fever and lumbago. The leaves are also widely used in association with other plants to treat the diseases. Crushed leaves and bark powder are applied to sores and wounds. 7,207
149 Kinkeliba Fruit Medicinal The dried powdered fruits are made into an ointment with oil, which is applied to suppurating swellings and abscesses, also of venereal origin, and applied to eye infections. 7,207
150 Kinkeliba Forage (fresh) Feed (Forage/Fodder) Combretum micranthum is a good browse plant for cattle and is important as forage in the dry season in Nigeria. In Senegal it seems to be browsed only by donkeys, sheep and goats, not much by cattle 7,207
151 Kinkeliba Forage (fresh) Industrial The leaves, stems and root bark are a source of yellow to brownish yellow dyes for textiles and mats. 7,207
152 Kinkeliba Bark Fibre The stem bark is made into rope. 7,207
153 Kinkeliba Bark Industrial The wood is very hard and used as firewood and to make charcoal. 7,207
154 Nutwood Seed Food The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food. 7,228
155 Nutwood Bark Industrial The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a fuel. 7,228
157 Purple-pod cluster-leaf Bark Medicinal The bark is chewed to treat coughs, sore throat and stomach-aches. 7,232
158 Purple-pod cluster-leaf Root Medicinal The roots are chewed to treat colds. A root decoction is taken to treat constipation, cough and colds 7,232
159 Purple-pod cluster-leaf Bark Industrial The yellow wood is heavy, very hard, tough and exceptionally durable, even in salty water where it resists borers. It is used to make tool handles, fence posts, house building, dhow keels and wagon axles. The wood makes a good fuel and an excellent charcoal. 7,232
160 Purple-pod cluster-leaf Bark Food An edible gum exudes from the tree. 7,232
161 Swamp Oak Bark Industrial The tree is a major source of timber in its native range and is often exported. The wood is used for light construction, mouldings, interior finish and veneer. A good-quality pulp, suitable for paper making, can be produced from plantation material. 7,234
162 Terumtum Merah Bark Industrial The yellow-brown wood is heavy and fine-grained. It is used locally for boat building. 7,235
163 Terumtum Merah Bark Oil (Fuel) The wood is used for fuel. 7,235
164 Tropical Almond Bark Industrial The bark and leaves and sometimes roots and green fruits are locally used for tanning leather and provide a black dye, used for dyeing cottons and rattan and as ink. The timber is of good quality and is used for house and boat building, furniture and cabinet-making. 7,236
166 Tropical Almond Seed Oil (Food) The seed is edible and considered delicious, and contains a pale odourless oil, similar to almond oil. 7,236
167 Tropical Almond Seed Medicinal The oil is employed medicinally as a substitute for true almond oil to relieve abdominal inflammations, and, cooked with the leaves, in treating leprosy, scabies and other skin diseases. 7,236