Zygophyllaceae FAMILY

Balanites wilsoniana

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Balanites wilsoniana is an evergreen tree with an irregular crown; it can grow 30 - 40 metres tall. The bole is sometimes spiny, often with high buttresses that continue upwards as twisted fluting[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. It can be 100cm in diameter[ 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/ ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use, supplying food, medicines and various commodities.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Ghana to Uganda, south to Angola and DR Congo.

HabitatA canopy tree in semi-deciduous or evergreen rain-forest; humid forest; lowland river-valley alluvium, and sometimes in sublittoral forest (Angola); in very mixed associations; on clay-rich substrates; at elevations up to 1,200 metres[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 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/ ].