The boabab tree is called the upside down tree by the Khoi.
Uses of the Baobab
- Besides making into soup, baobab leaves can be eaten like spinach
- Dried for use as a condiment.
- Natives eat the pulp for porridge
- Inside the seed pods, a white pulp, when mixed with water, makes the most refreshing drink
- Farmers mixed this pulp with water to treat Malaria.
- The seeds are also roasted and eaten like groundnuts and pounded they can be made into a sort of peanut butter.
- The bark may be pounded and soaked and made into rope, fishing nets or clothes. http://www.encounter.co.za/article/8.html
- Dried for use as a condiment.
- Natives eat the pulp for porridge
- Inside the seed pods, a white pulp, when mixed with water, makes the most refreshing drink
- Farmers mixed this pulp with water to treat Malaria.
- The seeds are also roasted and eaten like groundnuts and pounded they can be made into a sort of peanut butter.
- The bark may be pounded and soaked and made into rope, fishing nets or clothes. http://www.encounter.co.za/article/8.html
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