Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,674 Paper Mulberry Fruit Medicinal The fruit used as pectoral, stomachic and tonic. 8,798
1,675 Paper Mulberry Bark Medicinal The bark is taken against dysentery and haemorrhage and the latex applied externally to treat snake- and dog-bites and bee stings. 8,798
1,676 Paper Mulberry Root Medicinal The root bark is used for the depigmentation of the skin. 8,798
1,677 Paper Mulberry Whole Environmental It can fix soils and preventing further erosion due to its dichotomous root system. When growing in areas polluted by heavy metals it has been shown to concentrate these metals in its tissues. It makes a good shelterbelt and windbreak 8,799
1,678 Paper Mulberry Seed Industrial An oil from the seeds is used in soap and lacquer oil production. 8,799
1,679 Paper Mulberry Whole Industrial The tree (part not specified) produces a natural green to yellow-green dye. 8,799
1,680 Moringa Leaf Food The leaves are eaten as a salad, cooked, and in soups and sauces. 8,813
1,681 Moringa Flower Food Flowers are sometimes eaten as a vegetable, added to sauces or used to make tea. 8,813
1,682 Moringa Fruit Food The young fruits are eaten as a vegetable (‘drumsticks’ or ‘bâtons mouroungue’), older fruits are added to sauces. 8,813
1,683 Guava Fruit Food The fruit of the guava is highly valued and used in a number of different ways. It is very high in vitamin C, and also contains large amounts of vitamin A . The fruit can be eaten raw, but uncooked guavas are usually sliced and used in salads or desserts. 8,818
1,684 Guava Fruit Beverages Guava juice and guava nectar are popular beverages, while guava syrup can be used to flavour desserts. Green guavas can also be used as a source of pectin, while small and overripe fruit are utilised as a source of ascorbic acid for various foods and drinks. 8,818
1,685 Guava Wood Industrial The wood of the guava tree is yellow to red, and is suitable for carpentry and turnery. It can also be used as a fuelwood, and to make charcoal. The wood also serves for use as fenceposts and tool handles on farm implements. The bark is used for tanning hides, while the leaves produce a black dye. 8,818
1,686 Guava Leaf Feed (Forage/Fodder) Goats and sheep can be used for control, as they graze leaves and strip the bark. 8,818
1,687 Dogfruit Leaf Medicinal The leaves are applied externally to cuts and scabies. 8,828
1,688 Dogfruit Wood Industrial The wood is used for light construction, furniture, cabinet work, canoes. 8,828
1,689 Dogfruit Seed Food A. jiringa beans are usually consumed raw, roasted or fried and are available on market most of the year. 8,828
1,690 Akee Fruit Food Mature seed arils are eaten. They are not largely consumed in Africa, but considered a delicacy in some other parts of the world where Blighia sapida has been introduced. Ackee is also the national fruit of Jamaica. 8,832
1,691 Akee Wood Industrial Wood of Blighia sapida, known as ‘achin’ or ‘tsana’, is mainly used for light construction and furniture, but sometimes also for casks, boxes, crates, food containers, packing cases, tool handles, paddles, pestles, mortars, handicrafts, carving and turnery. It is suitable for interior trim, joinery and railway sleepers. In Ghana, it is used as a substitute for niangon (Heritiera utilis (Sprague) Sprague). The wood is also used as firewood and for charcoal production. 8,832
1,692 Akee Bark Medicinal Bark and leaf decoctions are administered to treat oedema, intercostal pain, dysentery and diarrhoea. 8,832
1,693 Moringa Seed Environmental The whole or pounded seeds have long been used to purify water in Sudan. 8,813