Lauraceae FAMILY

Beilschmiedia mannii

Edibility

3/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Beilschmiedia mannii is an evergreen shrub or small tree, occasionally becoming a fairly large tree up to 35 metres tall in areas such as Ghana and Liberia[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The bole can be straight and cylindrical or slightly angular and sinuous with heavy root swellings or narrow buttresses that can be up to 1 metre high. The bole can be branchless for up to 20 metres with a diameter up to 100cm[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The tree is mainly harvested from the wild, though it has occasionally been cultivated. It provides a range of foods and medicine for the local population and a valuable timber that is being exported in small quantities. The seeds are sold for food in local markets[ 46 Title Dictionary of Economic Plants. Publication Author Uphof. J. C. Th. Publisher Weinheim Year 1959 ISBN - Description An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Guinea to DR Congo.

HabitatUsually found in evergreen primary and secondary forest. Outside evergreen forest, it is found mainly in riverine and swamp forest[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. Usually an understorey tree in lowland rain-forest, sometimes in marshy situations, often on river-banks[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ].