Fast-growing tree, reaching upto 50m in height and 2.7 m i girth; Branches often short, thick and contorted ,3-5 leafe foliates alternate digitately; flowers form an infllorescence yellow tomentos; fruits are 2-3 lobed,2 celled and indehiscent with a thick cell hard shell. The smell of overripe apples;contain 2-3red-brown-black.seeds, are rounded and flat. seeds vary fromreddish brown to black and usually consist of a testa with a yellow kernel.
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African plum: family – Burseraceae. Safou – Shoue-Assa-Abua-Atanga
Evergreen oleiferous tropical fruit tre that can reach 20-30m in height in forest and 12m in orchads/plantations;the trank has an everage diameter of 55cm;leaves are compound,imparipinnate,with 5-8 pairs of leaflets; flowers are small with axis inflorescence.The fruit is usually cylindrical in shape.The ripe fruit is bluish/black in colour and filled with a rich oily pulp containing one seed.The seed is large and has no seed coat.