Taxon: Cola nitida (Vent.) Schott & Endl.

Common names:

• bitter cola   (Source: Use Pl Ghana )
  
• colatero   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• gbanja kola   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 )
  
• kola   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Kolabaum   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• kolatier   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide L Edible Pl; Ency CNatIn; Pl Res SEAs 16:79. 2000)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:79. 2000)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Pl Res SEAs 16:79. 2000)
  
• Social: masticatory; religious/secular; stimulant   (nuts are used in ceremonies; fide Pl Res SEAs 16:79. 2000)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Sierra Leone; Togo

Other:

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Abbiw, D. K. 1990. Useful plants of Ghana. (Use Pl Ghana)
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java) [cultivated].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press. (Handb Nuts)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. (Edible HC)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Keay, R. W. J. et al. 1960–1964. Nigerian trees. (Nigerian T)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds. 2000. Stimulants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 16:78.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cola nitida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cola nitida. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Sterculia nitida Vent. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Cola nitida (Vent.) Schott & Endl.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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