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Omphalocarpum elatum Miers is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is a tall tropical African tree, remarkable for the large fruits growing directly from the trunk, and in many ways resembling the Lecythidaceae genus Napoleonaea. It is native to Cabinda, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, the Gulf of Guinea islands, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria,the Republic of the Congo, and Sierra Leone The fruits are favoured by elephants, the only animals able to break through the hard shell. They do this by skewering the fruit with a tusk while using their trunk to brace it against the ground. Having passed through the elephant's digestive tract, seeds germinate more readily.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Omphalocarpum elatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
