Aframomum melegueta

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Related to Aframomum melegueta: Alligator pepper, Xylopia aethiopica

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Aframomum melegueta - West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds

grains of paradise, Guinea grains, Guinea pepper, melagueta pepper

herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

Aframomum, genus Aframomum - an African genus of plants of the family Zingiberaceae

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Antimicrobial properties and phytochemical analysis of methanolic extracts of Aframomum melegueta and Zingiber officinale on fungal diseases of tomato fruit.

Phytochemical Analysis and Antifungal Efficacy of Rhizome Extracts of various plants against Fusarium Wilt and Root Rot of Tomato

Essential oil constituents of Aframomum melegueta (Roscoe) Schum seeds (alligator pepper) from Nigeria.

Antimicrobial activity and physical characteristics of oil extracted from alligator pepper seed (Aframomum melegueta) cultivated in Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

There were some false starts on islands belonging to Sierra Leone, but eventually they reached what was known to European traders as the Grain Coast, source of a type of ginger spice, aframomum melegueta, a medicinal flavouring Europeans dubbed the <Grains of Paradise'.

Our man in Liberia: the author Graham Greene journeyed to West Africa in 1935, ostensibly to write a travel book. But claims Tim Butcher, it was a cover for a spy mission on behalf of the British anti-slavery movement which was investigating allegations that Liberia, a state born as a refuge for freed US slaves, was guilty of enslaving its own people

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