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Telfairia pedata, commonly known as oysternut [4] (alternately spelled as 'oyster nut', etc. [5]), queen's nut, [4] Zanzibar oilvine [4] (alternately spelled as 'oil vine', etc. [5]), kweme or kulekula, is a dioecious African liana which can grow up to 30 metres long, having purple-pink fringed flowers, and very large (30–90 cm × 15–25 cm), many-seeded, drooping, ellipsoid berries which ...
The mature fruit is poisonous enough to use as rat bait. The nuts are dried before cracking, after which the oil-laden kernel is removed and further dried. The first neoflavone isolated from natural sources (1951) was calophyllolide from C. inophyllum seeds. [21]
Tamanu oil is pressed from nuts of either Calophyllum inophyllum (usually) or Calophyllum tacamahaca (ati), tropical trees belonging to the Calophyllaceae family. The oil originates in Polynesia, where it continues to play an important cultural role. [citation needed] Commercial uses of tamanu oil are predominantly for skin care. The oil has ...
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A desert quandong nut on a piece of paperbark. The fruit and nut were important foods to the peoples of arid and semiarid central Australia, especially for its high vitamin C content. [11] It is commercially grown and marketed as a bush food and is sometimes made into a jam, an enterprise begun in the 1970s. It is well known as an exotic food.
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Caryocar nuciferum grows up to 35 metres (115 ft) in humid forests. Flowers are hermaphroditic and in small clusters. The large coconut-sized fruit, weighs about 3 kilograms (6.6 lb), is round or pear-shaped some 10–15 centimetres (4–6 in) in diameter, and greyish-brown in colour.