Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Prunus africana (Hook.fil.) Kalkman
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Prunus africana
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
(Hook.fil.) Kalkman
Common names
African Cherry, African Almond, African-Almond, Bitter Almond Tree, Red-Stinkwood, pygeum, Red Stinkwood
Names in other languages (48)Afrika kirazı, Afrika-amandel, Afrikaanse kers, Bitter amandel, Kotofy, Muiri, Nuweamandelhout, Nuwehout, Ol-koijuk, Rotes Stinkholz, aafrika loorberkirsipuu, afrikankirsikka, afrikansk lagerhägg, bitter-amandel, chati, gwaami, gwami, iNkokhokho, inNkokhokho, inYazangomelimnyama, inyazangoma, inyazangoma-elimnyama, inyazangoma-elimnyana, itywina-elikhul, itywina-elikhulu, kondekonde, mogohloro, muchambati, mulala-maanga, mwiluti, nGubozinyeweni, rooi-stinkhout, rooistinkhout, umKhakhazi, umdumezulu, umdumizula, umdumizulu, umkakase, umkhakhase, umkokoke, umlacume, umlalume, umseshane, vavrínovec africký, wilde-kersieboom, wildekersieboom, xalote, 非洲紅李
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Rosales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Rosaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Prunus
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
africana
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Prunus africana
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Vulnerable (VU)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 06:53.
Photo of Prunus africana (Hook.fil.) Kalkman
Photo: jordaan · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Prunus africana (Hook.fil.) Kalkman
Photo: jordaan · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Prunus africana (Hook.fil.) Kalkman
Photo: jordaan · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 06:53.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 8 of 8 is eaten by × is a host of × is dispersed by × is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of (this species is the record's destination) × interacts with × is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of (this species is the record's origin) × has as a vector × is pollinated by ×

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is eaten by 132 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
African Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis Zosteropidae is eaten by 3 not compared
Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus Pycnonotidae is eaten by 3 not compared
Blue Monkey Cercopithecus mitis Cercopithecidae is eaten by 3 not compared
Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster Sturnidae is eaten by 3 not compared
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is a host of 34 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Glomerales is a host of 77 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at order level.
Diplodia rosulata is a host of 18 no location
Glomeraceae Glomeraceae is a host of 12 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at family level.
Claroideoglomus Claroideoglomeraceae is a host of 8 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
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is dispersed by 20 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus Pycnonotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis Cisticolidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei Pycnonotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Little Greenbul Eurillas virens Pycnonotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
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is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 5 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Glomus sp. Glomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
Claroideoglomus sp. Claroideoglomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
Diversispora sp. Diversisporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
Pristigloma Pristiglomidae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
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interacts with 5 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Bocande's Stingless Bee Meliponula bocandei Apidae interacts with 1 no location
Cloudy-winged Stingless Bee Apotrigona nebulata Apidae interacts with 1 no location
Axestotrigona ferruginea Apidae interacts with 1 no location
African Thrush Turdus pelios interacts with 1 not compared
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is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 3 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Claroideoglomus Claroideoglomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Glomus Glomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Diversispora Diversisporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 3 of 3, by number of studies

has as a vector 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Pan troglodytes Hominidae has as a vector 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Pollination

is pollinated by 1 organism

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae is pollinated by 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.