🌍African Traditional Medicine
Monkey Bread Leaf
Adansonia gregorii
About Monkey Bread Leaf
Monkey Bread Leaf (Adansonia gregorii) is a herb used in the African Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Fever, Diarrhea, Immune Support, and Fatigue. The leaves are the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Adansonia gregorii, commonly known as the boab, is a tree in the family Malvaceae. As with other baobabs, it is easily recognised by the swollen base of its trunk, which forms a massive caudex, giving the tree a bottle-like appearance. Endemic to Australia, boab occurs in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and east into the Northern Territory. It is the only baobab to occur in Australia, the others being native to Madagascar (six species) and...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Leaves · internal