African peach

English

Noun

African peach (plural African peaches)

1. Nauclea latifolia) (syns. Sarcocephalus latifolius, Sarcocephalus esculentus), a deciduous rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa, or its fruit; its bark, doundaké, is used medicinally.
   • 1845, W.F. Daniell, “Some Observations on the Medical Topography, Climate, and Diseases, of the Bights of Benin and Biafra”, in London Medical Gazette‎^[1], volume 35, page 643:

     With the plants common to the Slave Coast may be included the Zingiber officianale (ginger), Sarcocephalus esculentus (African peach), Gossipium herbaceum (cotton plant), Tamarindus Indica (tamarinds), Cucurbita Citrullus (water-melon) […]

   • 2015, Bernd Schaefer, Natural Products in the Chemical Industry‎^[2]:

     In 2013, researchers at the Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble discovered unexpectedly racemic tramadol in the root bark of the sub-Saharan African peach (pincushion tree, Nauclea latifolia).

Synonyms

• (Nauclea latifolia): Guinea peach, Sierra Leone peach, country fig, pincushion tree

References

• African peach on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nauclea latifolia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Nauclea latifolia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Nauclea latifolia at Plants of the World Online