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Shea butter or Shea nut butter is a slightly yellowish or ivory-colored natural extracted from tree by crushing and boiling. Shea butter is widely used in cosmetics as a moisturizer and an emollient. Shea butter is also edible. As well as sometimes being used in the industry.
The shea or karite tree, formerly Butyrospermum paradoxum, is now called. It produces its first fruit (which resemble large plums) when it is about 20 years old and reaches its full production when the tree is about 45 years old. It produces nuts for up to 200 years after reaching maturity.
Many vernacular names are used for Vitellaria, which is a reflection of its extensive range of occurrencenearly 5,000km from (west) to (east) across the continent. The nomenclature history and synonymy of the shea tree followed a very tortuous evolution since the oldest recorded specimen collected by a European explorer dated,. It eventually arrived at the name vitellaria with subspecies paradoxa and nilotica. It usually grows to an average height of about 15m with profuse branches and a thick waxy and deeply fissured bark that makes it fire resistant.
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Posted from Cameroon - Sud-Ouest on 31 October, 2010
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