Agbaje Lateef receives funding from TETfund. The kola nut tree is grown for its seed. The tree is indigenous to west Africa, where it is widely cultivated. It’s now also found in Asia ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The kola nut tree is grown for its seed. The tree is indigenous to west Africa , where it is widely cultivated. It's now also found in Asia, South America and the Caribbean.

The nut comes from the evergreen kola tree, which is found in the rainforests of Africa. Inside the tree’s star-shaped fruits are white shells, which contain the seeds or kola nuts. In Nigeria ...

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Kola nuts are small, bitter-tasting nuts that grow on the kola tree. They can be as big as a potato or as small as a cherry. Even though they're called nuts, they're actually seeds from the fruit ...

Local people says the tree grew in the spot where renowned priest Komfo Anokye spat a kola nut on the ground in the early 1700s. Many local people believed the black and white seeds of the kola ...

He has not been named. According to local lore, the tree grew in the spot where renowned priest Komfo Anokye spat a kola nut on the ground in the early 1700s. Many in the community believed the ...

To the Nso people the kola nut is sacred It holds great spiritual ... to protect it The rituals involved in cutting down a kola nut tree not only speak to the essence of Nso culture but also ...