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Saba (plant)
''Saba '' is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1849. It is native to Madagascar, Comoros, and mainland Africa.Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226. ;Species * '' Saba comorensis'' (Bojer ex A.DC.) Pichon - Madagascar, Comoros, Africa from Senegal to Somalia and south to Zimbabwe * ''Saba senegalensis ''Saba senegalensis'', known as ''weda'' in the Mossi language, Moore, French language, French, and English language, English languages, is a fruit-producing plant of the Apocynaceae family, native to the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. It h ...'' (A.DC.) Pichon - Sahel from Senegal to Central African Republic * '' Saba thompsonii'' (A.Chev.) Pichon - W Africa (Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria) References Rauvolfioideae Apocynaceae genera {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saba Senegalensis
''Saba senegalensis'', known as ''weda'' in the Mossi language, Moore, French language, French, and English language, English languages, is a fruit-producing plant of the Apocynaceae family, native to the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. It has several common names in various West African Languages. The tree grows predominantly on riverbanks and in woodlands in The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Somalia, Mali and Ivory Coast. It has been observed growing as vine up trees, as a small erect shrub, and oftentimes growing to the size of a large tree. ICRISAT has cited ''S. senegalensis'' as a useful food crop plant and as a tool to combat soil degradation in rural Africa. Fruit The fruit of ''Saba senegalensis'' has a hard yellow peel containing large seeds embedded in a yellowish pulp, having a pleasing acidity similar to that of the tamarind. The flavour has also been compared with that of a mango or a lemon. Drink Natives of the Sahel, Sahel region often u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the family are native to the European, Asian, African, Australian, and American tropics or subtropics, with some temperate members. The former family Asclepiadaceae (now known as Asclepiadoideae) is considered a subfamily of Apocynaceae and contains 348 genera. A list of Apocynaceae genera may be found here. Many species are tall trees found in tropical forests, but some grow in tropical dry (xeric) environments. Also perennial herbs from temperate zones occur. Many of these plants have milky latex, and many species are poisonous if ingested, the family being rich in genera containing alkaloids and cardiac glycosides, those containing the latter often finding use as arrow poisons. Some genera of Apocynaceae, such as '' Adenium'', bleed clea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saba Comorensis
''Saba comorensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is commonly called bungo fruit (pl. mabungo), mbungo, or rubber vine and is widespread across most of tropical Africa as well as in Madagascar and Comoros. It grows in Tanzania and Somalia, for example on the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean. The species belongs to the genus ''Saba'' from the family Apocynaceae. The fruit looks similar to an orange with a hard orange peel but when opened it contains a dozen or so pips, which have the same texture as a mango seed with the fibres and juices all locked in these fibres. The fruit also makes a delicious juice drink which has been described as tasting "somewhere between a mango, an orange and a pineapple" The aromatic juice of the bungo fruit is also popular and highly appreciated on Pemba Island and other parts of coastal Tanzania. Not only in the Tanzanian Mahale Mountains National Park, ''S. comorensis'' is dispersed by chimpanzee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saba Thompsonii
Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea * Şaba (Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine * Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras * Saba (river), Leningrad Oblast, Russia * Saba, Iran, a village in Bushehr Province * Saba District, Yamaguchi, district located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan * Saba Island, United States Virgin Islands, an island three miles south of St. Thomas * Saba Bank, the largest submarine atoll in the Atlantic Ocean, located in the Caribbean Netherlands * Saba Rock, a small island in the British Virgin Islands * Mukim Saba, a mukim in Brunei * Kfar Saba, a city in Israel * Kafr Saba, a historical village in Mandatory Palestine History * Sabaʾ, an ancient kingdom in South Arabia * Saba' (Sheba), an ancient kingdom mentioned in Biblical and Islamic traditions which may be the same as Sabaʾ People * Saba (name), a given or surname (includes list of people with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rauvolfioideae
Rauvolfioideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Apocynaceae (order Gentianales). Many species are woody lianas, others are shrubs or perennial herbs. Tribes and genera *Tribe Aspidospermateae Miers, 1878 **'' Aspidosperma'' Mart. & Zucc., 1924 **'' Geissospermum'' Allemão, 1846 **'' Haplophyton'' A.DC., 1844 **'' Microplumeria'' Baill., 1899 **'' Strempeliopsis'' Benth., 1876 **'' Vallesia'' Ruiz & Pav., 1794 *Tribe Alstonieae G. Don, 1837 **'' Alstonia'' R. Br., 1810 **'' Dyera'' Hook. F., 1882 *Tribe Vinceae Duby, 1828 **subtribe Kopsiinae Leeuwenb., 1994 ***'' Kopsia'' Blume, 1823 **subtribe Ochrosiinae Pichon ex Boiteau, 1981 ***''Ochrosia'' Juss, 1789 **subtribe Tonduziinae M.E. Endress, 2014 ***'' Laxoplumeria'' Markgr., 1926 ***'' Tonduzia'' Pittier, 1908 **subtribe Vincinae M.E. Endress, 2014 ***''Vinca'' L., 1853 **subtribe Catharanthinae Pichon ex Boiteau, 1981 ***''Catharanthus'' G. Don, 1837 ***'' Kamettia'' Kostel., 1834 ***'' Petchia'' Livera, 1926 **s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
