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Sweet detar
Detarium microcarpum
About
Detarium microcarpum, commonly known as sweet detar, sweet dattock or tallow tree, is an underutilized species of tree legume that grows naturally in the drier regions of West and Central Africa. It has a wide range of uses due to its medicinal properties, edible fruit and hardwood, which is used as fuel. This makes it valuable and appreciated by local communities, but further research and effort are needed for its domestication.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Detarium microcarpum
- Slug
- detarium-microcarpum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Detarium
- Species
- microcarpum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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