Table 1 Significant use-report of B. aethiopum per plant part and use category: processing method, forms of use, purpose of use and fidelity level (FL) per chorological region (Hu = Humid, Sub-hu = Sub-humid, Sem = Semi-arid) with illustrations on Fig. 3. Only uses with FL ≥ 5% in at least one region are displayed
Plant parts | Use category | Processing method | Form of use | Purpose of use | Chorological regions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hu | Sub-hu | Sem | |||||
Fruits | Food | Remove the flesh | Eat | Human food | 2.77 | 66.02 | 82.61 |
Boil in water the fruits | 86.15 | 4.21 | 6.21 | ||||
Boil in water fruits with corn (maize, rice or millet) | – | 2.59 | 7.14 | ||||
Toast fruits | – | – | 30.75 | ||||
Medicine | Soak fruits in cold/boiled water | Drink the liquid | Malaria | 8.31 | 5.50 | – | |
Other uses | Collect fruits | Set around or in house, room | Discard shrews and snakes | 2.77 | 47.57 | – | |
Hypocotyle | Food | Boil hypocotyls | Eat | Human nutrition | 32.41 | 66.99 | 85.16 |
Toast hypocotyls | – | 1.94 | 29.19 | ||||
Medicine | Soak in alcohol | Drink the liquid | Stomach-ache | 1.11 | 43.37 | – | |
Leaves | Handcraft | Harvest leaves from juveniles and weave (without the limb) | Fan | Home-use | 37.95 | 82.85 | 4.04 |
Mat | 0.28 | 15.86 | 4.04 | ||||
Hat | Clothing | 2.49 | 24.60 | – | |||
Harvest leaves from trees and bind | Sweeping | Home-use | – | – | 20.50 | ||
Construction | Harvest leaves from trees | Use with stems to enclose the house | Palissad | 0.55 | 6.15 | – | |
Cover roof of house | Roof | 11.63 | 22.98 | – | |||
Stipe | Medicine | Recuperate the sap after logging a tree | Rinse the mouth | Tooth decay | – | – | 13.35 |
Construction | Cut down trees and split longitudinally | Chevron | House construction | 47.65 | – | 13.35 | |
Beam | – | 39.16 | 0.31 | ||||
Post | – | 17.15 | – | ||||
Petiole | Handcraft | Crush fresh petiole bark | Use as sponge | Home use/trade | – | 15.86 | – |
Construction | Collect petioles | Use petioles as girder in poultry house | Home-use | 0.28 | 1.94 | 9.01 | |
Firewood | Collect dried petioles | Firewood | Home-use | 45.71 | 14.24 | 29.50 | |
Seeds | Food | Break nuts of green fruits using rocks and extract the almond | Snack food | Human nutrition | 6.37 | 0.97 | 5.90 |
Break nuts of green fruits using rocks and take the liquid | 8.86 | 0.32 | 5.90 | ||||
Let seeds germinate and extract the almond | – | – | 12.73 | ||||
Firewood | Collect dried husk of seeds | Firewood | Home-use | 1.66 | – | 5.90 | |
Roots | Medicine | Soak roots in water | Take a bath | Tonify infants | – | 7.77 | – |
Boil in water | Drink the liquid | Malaria | 2.77 | 5.83 | – | ||