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Wood
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To make floors, boxes, tool handles, boats/canoes, furniture, joinery, tools, yokes, plates/bowls, mortars, stools, beehives, toys, ornaments, drums and curios.
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Tannins / Resin
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Red/brown dye and inks from the bark and resin.
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Fruit Skins
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Used as a fertiliser in Pearl Millet fields in Namibia
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Truncheons/plants
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Live fences
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Bark
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- For ritual, religion, magic
- A decoction is taken to remove defilement caused by eating foods in the relatives' house where there has been a death without the performance of necessary purification rites
- Venda people administer powdered bark to expectant mothers to regulate the child's sex
- Zulus and Thongas use a decoction of the bark as a ritual cleansing emetic before marriage
- Zulu healers bathe in a decoction of the bark before treating a patient with gangrenous rectitis
- Newly-born girls and their mothers are washed on a fire heated by marula twigs so that the baby may be endued with fertility, softness, tenderness and early maturity
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Leaves
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- Leaf decoctions are taken and inhaled for malaria in Madagascar
- Leaves may be used as dressings for burns and wounds
- Leaves are used as a relish in food
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Roots
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- In Zimbabwe, menorrhagia, bilharzias, sore eyes, weakness and heart pain
- In East Africa, roots are used with other species in an alcoholic medicine known as kati
- In Senegal, root bark and leaves are used with other plants for snake bite and other venom
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Fresh Fruit
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Eaten whole, particularly by children. Skin and nuts discarded. Also eaten by cattle, goats, game mammals, elephants, etc.
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Nuts / Kernels / Oils
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- Compartmentalised kernels can be eaten as they are or ground up to make porridge, condiments, pseudocereals, and see oil, or mixed with other
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Source: Winners & Losers in Forest Production Commercialisation: ZF0140/R7795 Marula Commercialisation for Sustainable Livelihoods August 2001
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