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Cola acuminata (Beauv.) Schott & Endl. - Sterculiaceae - cola (nut), abata cola, Kolabaum
Tree of the tropical parts of West Africa (Cameroon to Angola).
„The seeds are chewed as a stimulating narcotic, beverage could be made by boiling powdered seed in water, and also a cough syrup made from the juice extract (Tachie-Obeng and Browns, 2004, http://carpe.Umd.Edu/Documents/2001/report-tachieobeng_brown2001.pdf). The stem and twig wood is used for chewing stick. It can also be used as flavoring in soft drinks e.g. coca-cola. Several species of cola nut have been recognised in Nigeria. There are about three sub genera that are accepted and cultivated. They are often refers to as edible cola but only two are widely cultivated namely Cola nitida (Vent.) Schott and Endl and Cola acuminata (P. Beauv.) Schott and Endl they are the two economically important members of the cola genus. They are bitter-tasting nuts known conventionally as Kola nuts. These two species are the true cola nuts. In Western Nigeria, cola nut ranks very high among agricultural cash crops in importance from which the bulk of our revenue can be derived.“
[Socio-economic Contribution, Marketing and Utilization of Edible Kolanut (Cola acuminata and Cola nitida) to Rural Women Livelihood in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Adedokun, M. O., Soaga, J. A. O., Olawumi, A. T., Oyebanji, O. O., Oluwalana, S. A., International Journal of Molecular Ecology and Conservation, 2(1). 2013] http://biopublisher.ca/index.php/ijmec/article/html/505