SORRO

1-Identification

French name: LE SORRO

Scientific name: Scyphocephalium ochocoa

Family: Myristicaceae

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This tree, very characteristic and common, is part of the Myristicaceae. Its barrel, dark red in color, is often irregular, splined at the base. He was wounded and left a red exudate flowing freely. Its branches are inserted horizontally. Its fruit, globular drupe a little flattened, yellowish is covered with red and soft hairs. It contains a rounded oleaginous seed, giving, by extraction, a solid fatty substance, the basis of various remedies

Vernacular names:

:—Dioula, Bambara, Malinké, Sénoufo, Dogon:

—, Bwa, Bobo-fing, Balante, Badiaranké

—Dioula, Bété, Baoulé, Attié, Agni, Abbey:

—Wolf, Peuhl, , Floup, Foula:

— Minyanka , Mancagne, manding, Mandjaque, Moor:

—Doubt, Niominka, None:

—Bassari, Baynouk, Bayotte:

—Safèn, Sérère, Socé, Sarakolé, Susu:

—All color, Tandaneous:

—Portuguese Creole:

—Goun, Fon:

—Yorouba, Nago:

—Myna, Waci, Adja, Kotafon, Saxwè :

— Bariba, Ditammari, dendi, Waama, Yom,

— Local names in GABON: myenaeus, galoa, nkomi = osaka kota = isoko mitsogo, simba =otsoko fang =sogbe éshira, vili, nzébi, sangu, punu = musuku mindumu = motsuku, ontsogo benga =bohoko ngowe = musoko

2-Properties

. These seeds are also used as condiment and bait for porcupine traps. In decoction, the bark is used against gonorrhea and against cough with salt and chili pepper.