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SHIPPING DURATION: America and Europe take 2 weeks or less to deliver while Asia takes 3-4 weeks or less to deliver through Registered mail.

EXPRESS SHIPPING: UPS and EMS shipping take 7 working days to deliver worldwide, sometimes it takes more than 7 working days to deliver depending on delay by custom.

NOTE: I can only ship through UPS or EMS when a customer desire express shipping with extra cost shipping cost.

1 fruit/purchase

General Information:

African fan palm is a robust to massive, single-stemmed, evergreen palm with an unbranched stem that can ultimately reach 20 - 30 metres long by 40 - 50cm diameter, swollen at the base to 85cm, and in old age at about 50 years also swollen above the mid-point to about 80cm diameter. The large, fan shaped leaves are up to 4 metres long and 3 metres across, deeply divided into leaflets, and thorny at the base.

A very useful multipurpose tree that is widely utilized for food, medicine and a wide range of commodities. All parts of the tree are used. The fruits are often sold in local markets. The plant is also grown as an ornamental.

The widespread usage of this plant, especially eating the bud and tapping the sap, has greatly reduced the numbers of these palms in their native habitat.

The plant usually flowers and produces fruit all year round.

Edible Uses:

Fruit - fresh or dried, slightly sweet, but with a mild turpentine-like flavour. The fruits have a large, fibrous pulp, weighing around 500g each, that smells strongly of turpentine. They are consumed raw or cooked, preferably with rice, eaten as a food supplement and rich in oil. The ripe, fallen fruit are collected, peeled and the juicy pulp is squeezed in water to form a solution which is added to porridge during cooking in order to improve the flavour.

Propagation:

The seed does not require pre-treatment and germinated in about 4 weeks. The plant produces a very long taproot, which can be 1 metre long when top growth is only 1cm tall, and so it is best sown in situ.

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NOTE: Shipping plants seeds from Ghana requires mandatory phyto certificate as primary requirement.

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