ABSTRACT
This chapter provides information on the uses, folk medicine, chemistry, germplasm, distribution, ecology, cultivation, harvesting, yields, energy, and biotic factors of Manketti Nut. Source of essang oil, seeds contain 35 to 55% oil, which has been recommended in the drying oil industries. The nuts are consumed as food after boiling. From the Africa Center of Diversity, the essang nut seems to tolerate savanna, second growth, slopes, and weeds. From the Africa Center of Diversity, the essang nut seems to tolerate savanna, second growth, slopes, and weeds. According to a forester quoted by Menninger, elephants eat the fruits greedily, and "seed will not germinate until it has spent a week in the elephant", but even the elephant's digestive system barely affects the fruit and the enclosed kernel. "The natives of Rhodesia, therefore, follow the elephant, recover the hard-shelled nuts where they have been dropped, clean and dry them, then crack the extremely hard shell, and find the contents perfectly delicious.
