Les orchidées comestibles chez le peuple Bagam, au Cameroun

• Main Author: Menzepoh, SB.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux 2011-01-01
• Series: Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement
• Subjects: Habenaria keayi; Habenaria zambesina; edible orchid; ground meat; Bagam tribe; Cameroon
• Online Access: http://www.pressesagro.be/base/text/v15n4/509.pdf

Edible orchids by the Bagam tribe in Cameroon. In the Zambezian region of Africa, tuber orchids are renowned for their food, medicinal and economic values. In central Africa and in Cameroon in particular, socio-economic role of orchids is still to be documented. The current paper focuses on two orchids, Habenaria keayi Summerh. and Habenaria zambesina Rchb.f. which tuber and roots respectively are used to prepare a food called "napssié" or ground meat by the Bagam tribe in the subdivision of Galim, Western region of Cameroon. The paper also mentions their socio-economic role, threat and pleads for their domestication.