Ximenia americana (Blue sourplum)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core eudicots > Order: Santalales > Family: Olacaceae > Genus: Ximenia

Uses

• The fruit have a bitter-sweet taste and are popular to eat in rural areas.
• The fruit contains a hard nut containing a tasty kernel.
• The oil from the nut was once used as a lubricant for leather and is also used as a cosmetic and skin ointment.

Publications

• van Wyk, B.-E. & Gericke, N. 2000. People's Plants. A Guide to Useful Plants of Southern Africa. Briza Publications, Pretoria.