Taxonomy

Division:

Magnoliophyta | - Flowering plants

Family:

Sapotaceae

Genus:

Vitellaria

Species:

Vitellaria paradoxa subsp. paradoxa

Growth Characteristics

Growth Habit:

Tree

Native Range

Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad, Ethiopia, West Tropical Africa: Benin, Burkina, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic