The Baobab or “monkey’s bread tree” is the most common name of a genus Adansonia containing eight species of trees indigenous to Madagascar (six species) and mainland Africa and Australia (one species in each country). However, it has been established in other equatorial African states where suited habitat occurs. It is bounded to hot, dry [...]

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The Mangosteen is a tropical evergreen fruit tree, native to South-East Asia and a member of the Guttiferae family. It grows from 7 to 25m in height. It is close related to otheredible equatorial fruits such as button Mangosteen and lemon-drop Mangosteen. It can blossom two times per year and produce two crops, in February [...]

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The Chilean coconut is one of the great specimens of nut trees when full grown. It grows slowly and reaches a height up to 15m and a girth of 1.5m but only after 100 years. Its common name ‘Wine Palm’ is derived from the fact that the trunk is full of sweet honey like syrup [...]

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The Parinari also known as Mobola Plum is an evergreen tropical fruit tree with a mushroom like shape. However, appearance changes a good deal from one region to another. The Mobola Plum is a member of the Chrysobalanaceae family, found over a great range of places in Africa, in lowland forest, in forest along streams [...]

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The Coco Plum is a tree-like shrub, (2 to 6 m and rarely to 10m), growing wild in Africa, along the shores of South America and Caribbean. Leaves are evergreen broad-oval leathery 3 to 10 cm long and 3 to 7 cm wide with colors ranging from green to light red. The flowers appear in [...]

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