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.

   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).

   2015, Bernd Schaefer, Natural Products in the Chemical Industry

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   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) […]

   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

   Synonyms: Guinea peach, Sierra Leone peach, country fig, pincushion tree