Erowid Voacanga africana Vault Become a member today and help keep Erowid online. Be unusually kind to others during this period of uncertainty. A tropical tree up to 30 feet tall with glossy foliage. Native to West Africa. Flowers are white or yellow.
Seeds are numberous, dark brown and ellipsoid in shape and embedded in pulp.
Cymes 6-25 cm, usually many flowered. Calyx 0.7-1.9 cm, lobes broadly ovate to oblong. Follicles obliquely subglobose, with pale green spots. Closely related to both Tabernanthe and Tabernaemontana genuses. The latex is used as a rubber adulterant.