Saba senegalensis
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Saba senegalensis ( Syn .: Landolphia senegalensis (A.DC.) Kotschy & Peyr., Vahea senegalensis A.DC.) is a plant species in the subfamily Rauvolfioideae within the family of the dog poison plants (Apocynaceae). It is native to West Africa. The fruit is known under the name Kaba , in Mandinka Kaba or in Wolof Madd / Maad ; Findipuff in Diola . In Mali the fruit is called Zaban or Saba in Maninka , depending on the language region.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Saba senegalensis is a, often multi-stemmed, shrub or liana . She carries a white milky juice (latex). The trunk diameter can be 30-45 centimeters. The bark, which is rough and scaly with age, is dark brown.
The opposite and entire, simple, slightly leathery leaves are short stalked. They are elliptical to oblong or ovate to lanceolate and up to about 8-15 centimeters long and up to 4-6 centimeters wide. The tip is pointed to pointed or rounded, the base of the leaf is rounded to blunt. The veins are pinnate and lighter, as well as raised underneath.
Generative characteristics
The strongly scented, five-fold and stalked flowers stand together in a terminal, short-stalked, umbrella-like inflorescence . The flowers with a small calyx with pointed lobes are salver-plate-shaped with a yellow throat. They have a narrow and greenish corolla tube thickened at the bottom and spread, white, obovate to elongated and rounded corolla lobes. The enclosed stamens with short stamens are attached at the bottom of the corolla tube. The Upper constant ovary has a short stylus , which usually ends with the insertion of the stamens, and an elongated scar .
The egg-shaped to ellipsoidal, 7 to 10 centimeters large, greenish or orange-yellow to reddish brownish spotted fruits , berries have a rough, finely pitted surface. They contain 7–20 cream-colored, flat and ellipsoidal, smooth seeds , each individually wrapped in a layer of soft, juicy, yellow pulp. The thick, leathery, firm skin is fibrous.
use
The fruit is opened for consumption like a boiled egg. The sweet-sour and soft pulp, around the individual seeds around, consists of about 20-30% from carbohydrates and contains about 0.1-0.2% vitamin C . It is eaten fresh, sometimes with added sugar or salt, or used in local Senegal and Gambian cuisine .
The latex is used medicinally and as an adhesive.
The leaves are used as a spice and medicinally.
Saba senegalensis fruits
Opened fruit
Opened fruit and seeds with surrounding pulp
A Kaba fruit
A western green monkey with a kaba fruit
A caba fruit after a meal (presumably) by a western green monkey
blossoms
literature
- MG Sarr, ND Ndiaye, NC Ayessou et al .: Saba senegalensis: Key Features and Uses. In: Food and Nutrition Sciences. Vol. 9, No. 9, 2018, 1099–1111, doi: 10.4236 / fns.2018.99080 .
- Saba senegalensis (PDF), at World Agroforestry (ICRAF).
Web links
- Entry at GRIN.
- Saba senegalensis . In: U. Brunken, M. Schmidt, S. Dressler, T. Janssen, A. Thiombiano, G. Zizka: West African plants - A Photo Guide. Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
- Saba senegalensis at Useful Tropical Plants.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Non-Wood Forest Products In The Gambia 3.2 In-country information on food plants in The Gambia at FAO (engl.)
- ^ Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale Fion . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 14, 2010 ; accessed on May 8, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Michigan State University (French; PDF; 128 kB).
- ↑ Etude Sur La Collecte Et L'analyse Des Données Sur Les Produits Forestiers Non Ligneux Au Sénégal 3.1. Les fruits forestiers . at FAO (French)
- ^ M. Arbonnier: Arbres, arbustes et lianes des zones sèches de l'Afrique de l'Ouest. 2002, ISBN 2-85653-546-1 .
