But the nation also enjoys fufu (a stiff porridge staple made with cassava or maize flour), safou (a purple fruit which looks a bit like a large olive, and is usually boiled and salted before eating), saka saka (a local favourite made with cassava leaves and salt fish), and makobe (freshwater fish seasoned with chili and cooked in the local
marantaceae leaves).
In the advanced stage of regeneration: Score f) In the sub-forest, shrub and herbaceous strata appear 7 56 with greater or lesser frequency, with the shrubs being predominantly those already mentioned for the previous stage (Ombrophilous shrubs) and the herbaceous species consisting predominantly of Bromeliaceae, Araceae,
Marantaceae, and Heliconiaceae, mainly in the humid areas.
vivipara L., Dactylis glomerata L., Poa x jemtlandica K.Richt.), as well as the Zingiberales (Costaceae Nakai and
Marantaceae R.Br.).
Insect diversity in phytotelmata habitats of two host plants, Heliconia stricte/ Huber (Heliconiaceae) and Calathea lutea Schult (
Marantaceae) in the south-east Amazon of Peru.
The Zingiberales (Cannaceae,
Marantaceae, and Zingiberaceae) in the souther eastern United States.
Contrasting patterns of gene flow between sister plant species in the understory of African moist forests-The case of sympatric and parapatric
Marantaceae species.
Prominent among plant families used in plaitwork are Arecaceae (rattans, fan-palms, sago palms), Poaceae/Gramineae (bamboos), Pandanaceae (screw-pines), Cyperaceae (sedges), Zingiberaceae (gingers), as well as Hypoxidaceae,
Marantaceae, Gleicheniaceae, and Moraceae.
Mushrooms, caterpillars and
Marantaceae leaves were reported only in the CAR and Congo, meanwhile cola nuts (Cola spp.), was reported in Cameroon and Congo only.