Non-wood forest products - country information

Introduction

Main non-wood forest products

The most known and most important Sudanese non-wood forest product (NWFP) is gum arabic, obtained mainly from Acacia senegal (gum hashab) but also from Acacia seyal (gum talha). Sudan is also one of the world's biggest exporters of olibanum resins (Boswellia sp.).

Other vegetal NWFP are fodder (e.g. Ziziphus spp., Acacia spp.); food (fruits, e.g. Hyphaene thebaica; nuts, e.g. Cordeauxia edulis; and edible oils, e.g. Vitellaria paradoxa, Balanites aegyptiaca); medicines (e.g. Tamarindus indica); dyes (e.g. henna ­ Lawsonia inermis, Prosopis africana); fibres (e.g. Borassus aethiopum); latex (e.g. Landolfia ovariensis); and tannins (e.g. Rizophora mucronata, Acacia nilotica).

Honey and beeswax are the only faunal NWFP on which documentation exists.

General information

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