African peach
English
Noun
African peach (plural African peaches)
- Sarcocephalus latifolius (synonyms Sarcocephalus esculentus, Nauclea latifolia), a deciduous rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa, or its fruit.
- 1845, W.F. Daniell, “Some Observations on the Medical Topography, Climate, and Diseases, of the Bights of Benin and Biafra”, in London Medical Gazette, 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:
- 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).
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Synonyms
- (Sarcocephalus latifolius): 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