Shea trees take approximately 31 years to reach maturity.

The Shea tree is a traditional African food plant.

The Shea tree is considered sacred, and its butter is known as "women's gold" because it is how the women make their money.

Shea trees, baobabs and acacias are usually found in the savanna and the northern part of the country.

'shea tree') in the Bamana language of Mali.

Vitellaria paradoxa (the shea tree) is extremely important in Burkina Faso.

Most of their soaps, lotions and shampoos contain moisturizing shea butter, derived from the African shea tree.

The Shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa, syn.

Trees of note include the shea tree (known as "Karité" in the local Dioula language and the baobab (hibiscus tree).

Shea butter is an oil extract from the kernel of the sheanut produce of the shea tree Vitellaria paradoxa (syn.

Although the shea tree is indigenous to the semi-arid Sahel region of West Africa, Burkina Faso contains the largest number of them.

Of the plant species, the dominant endemic species are shea tree (Butyrospermum parkii) and the baobab (hibiscus tree), the former plant species has immense economic value to the country.

All trees have a set of circumfixes bu-bu and i-di in the singular and plural, as in busaabu (shea tree) and isaandi (shea trees).

The shea tree grows naturally in the wild in the dry savannah belt of West Africa from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east, and onto the foothills of the Ethiopian highlands.

Badini was co-director of Le Beurre et l'argent du beurre, which explores the trade in shea butter made from the nuts of the shea tree, a source of cash to subsistence farmers in Burkina Faso.

Termed "women' gold" by Burkinabé villagers, the nuts of shea tree can be collected and processed by crushing and grinding to yield shea butter, which is widely used in soap and in cosmetics as a moisturizer, salve, or lotion.

Under indigenous farming system when clearing land for other agricultural activities, Shea trees are preserved and its exclusive plantation is restricted to avoid shading of other crops; however the operations of weeding and management of soil fertility adopted for other crops also facilitates shea tree growth.

The Shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa, syn.

The order also includes shea (Vitellaria paradoxa), which is the major dietary lipid source for millions of sub-Saharan Africans.

Shea butter is an oil extract from the kernel of the sheanut produce of the shea tree Vitellaria paradoxa (syn.