Description
A tall forest tree yielding an aromatic resin (elemi) and an oily, olive-like edible fruit.
Medicinal Uses
Bark is used in African ethnomedicine for diabetes, pain, malaria, fever, and diarrhoea; the resin has antimicrobial and antifungal properties.
Food Uses
The fruit is softened by warming or boiling and eaten as an oily snack.
Cultivation
A large forest tree, harvested from the wild across tropical Africa.
