Nigeria's chewing sticks: Fagara zanthoxyloides (Orin atata) – Punch Newspapers
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 3 January 2021 Fagara zanthoxyloides Lam is a much-branched tree with dense, dark-green foliage and abundant prickles. These prickles or thorns extend to the leaf stalks and the leaflets midribs. The leaves are elliptic, slightly obovate. The flowers are greenish-white in narrow axillary and terminal panicles usually without thorns. It is always in fruit between July and September every year. What makes Fagara zanthoxyloides(also known as (Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides) unique is that it is used for the management of sickle cell disease. In the 70s at the Obaf...
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