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Ewe iyeye,
omo ti mo bi ko i to,
ewe iyeye igba ni (the leaves of iyeye is two hundred, the children I have are not enough, the leaves of iyeye is two hundred). My discussion is on the iyeye plant. It is known as hog plum in English. The Igbo call it
Ijikara while it is known asTsardar masar in Hausa. While I was young, a big tree of
iyeye was on a road path leading to our house and it dropped fruits while ripe so we had the opportunity to pick and eat as much as we liked.