4/7/15 2:27 PMeAfrican Medicinal & Edible Plants used in the African Village & the Developed World Focus on Mount Cameroon region, its people and traditional plantsPaul Blackmore

Better to leave forest standing or replace it?Baskets, colored cords, utility baskets + ball, music

Cameroon-> heart of tropical Africa (armpit), hinge mountanois-> highest and most active volcano in central Africa 4,000 meters. Forest, development, species sophistication1900s hundreds of communities, not connected (Europeans explored and connected)Cameroon away from Africa, desert mountain, volcanoes, rivers beachesChain of old and active volcanoes. Size of California 21 million people, 282 linguistic groups, muslim, Christian pagan, national language of English and

Botanic garden-? 120 yr old botanic garden established by germans in 1990, still there and run-down. Renovate and turn it ino a botanist conservation center. Last place after congo still from sea to 4000 meters intact 3k people, 3 major tribes. -> botanic garden opens area for to research and develop crops that will pay for development of project. Oldest thing there. Medicinal plants, spices dont go to forest to have to develop

Cameroon- intact ecosystem

Varied geography, diverse eco-system different types of habitats. Lowlad, coastal, riparin, montane and cloud forest, alpine grasslandsIndigenous, bakweri, bakossi and bota peopleRegional- limbe botanic garden, research and conservation of the regional biodiversity

British ambassador-> bakossi, rob ships, trade stolen good to ladpeople. Mangrove swamps, rainforestMt Atinde sacred in part of Cameroon, Volcano shaped biodiversity, landscape and the people. Biodiversity, fertility incredibly rich. 2 day hike Cameroon 3k miles from Britain, sophisticated, well-educated liked in forests (bakweri), do not give up traditional ways. October, elephant dances bakweri people

iboga, anickia chlorantha (yellow

kola nut- chew stimulant, picks u upaframomum melegueta- first spice to come out of Africa, peperry spicy, gin gives it the flavor 500yrs ago by Portuguese, preserve meat and perishablemakes beer last longer, member of ginger family,

Vegetables (Starch, eat vine, netums (colifer) evolutionary bridge angiosperm and conifers. Trees or vines and eat themUncooked, as a surivival, chronic goutPlant common in forrest pushed to near extinction (due to harvesting) can buy in the USATake vine300 miles and rip by tone, bundle it bring back, go to shreddingtake leaves in boiling water stays leathery add weed, turns into sludge boil it, served as food. Pd/pd more protein than fish Eru

Supports industry/ money being made.Eru enormous generates millions per year for regional economy Species cultivated Cameroon. Seed of bush mango (irvingia gabonensis, thickener for soups and medicines, slimmingTarry stinky mass, remove endosperm, seeds fruit 6 weeks from forest to market,

Ogbono soup

Prunus Africana (Rosaceae), pygeum, high altitudeTreatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (Swollen prostate), 200 compounds, cat synthesize any active ingredients

ProstrateBark tea, fever stomach upset and malaria prunus Africana

Mass exploitation, harvest one side, come around 5 yrs later to harvest1000s pounds of bark a year

Kola Nut: Cola acuminata (Kola nut, most important stimulant in west Africa, caffeine free rich stimulant muslims use kola on a daily basis

Small grain put in mouth chew on a red hot chili. Aframomums.

Katemfe fruit: Thaumatococcus daniellii (Marantaceae), Thaumatin, sweet taste, persist for hours. Medicine flavor sour food and drinksThaumatin 2000 time sweeter than sugar. Naturaly sweetner

Tate and lyle

Strophanthus hispidus- malaria

Voacanga Africana (seedpods melons that crack open and picks them, medicine,Increases blood flow through the brain and treats migrainesAllows blood flow to brain. Seed of truth. Follow-up and see cures, little infoPeople disappear or replaced, info is lost

Calabar Physostigma venenosum

Madagascar Periwinkle, cancer , plant in Jamaica, research on that led to different compounds catharantus, not directly linked.

Ackee Fruit (Blighia sapida) Sapindaceae-> tree is native to West Africa,information was lost, people were exploited.

Mutiny on HMS Bounty, Blight POLYNESIA, BREADFRUIT and cheap to bring to America,

Iboga Tabernathe iboga-> plant Gabon and Cmaerppm, taken during religious ceremony, hypnotic state allows a person to remake decisions and to communicate with ancestors

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