Lannea welwitschii (Bekele-Tesemma, 2007)

← Kigelia africana

Bekele-Tesemma, Useful trees and shrubs for Ethiopia, 2007 Lannea welwitschii (Bekele-Tesemma, 2007)

Lawsonia inermis →

Lannea welwitschii Anacardiaceae Indigenous

Common names

• Agnuakgna: Arim
• Mejengrgna: Cholmi

Ecology

In Ethiopia it grows in lowland forest in Ilubabor and Kefa, 1,100—1,250 m., in moist Bereha and wet and moist kolla.

Use

Timber (construction), food (fruit).

Description

It is a tree up to 30 m in height, crown relatively small.

• BARK: smooth, pale-gray, twigs stout, prominently packed with a line of loosely packed cork cells, minutely branching hairs when young and soon becoming with no hair.
• LEAVES: glabrous, 5-7, foliolate, axis of its compound leaf 5- 22 cm long, becoming hairless; leaflets with petiolules up to 13 mm long, lanceolate, 10-17 cm in length and 4.5–8 cm in width, slightly leathery, base cuneate, often unequal sided, tip bluntly acuminate, tertiary veins impressed on both sides.
• FLOWER: inflorescences, produced with or slightly before leaves, paniculate, to 15 cm long, branches to 5 cm, sparsely stellatefloccose, pedicels about 1.5 mm long, petals 2–2.5 mm in length and 1.2-1.5 mm in width, pale creamy yellow.
• FRUIT: drupe, about 8 mm long and 6 mm wide, glabrous.

Propagation

Seedlings, wildings

Seed

• Treatment: No need
• Storage: Can be stored for few months if dried well and put in air-tight container.

Management

Can easily germinate in one weeks time.

Remarks

Children and the youth eat the fruit raw.