Saba comorensis

{{Short description|Species of plant in the family Apocynaceae}}

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|image_caption = Saba comorensis1885 illustration from Franz Eugen Köhler, in Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen

|genus = Saba

|species = comorensis

|authority = (Bojer ex A.DC.) Pichon

|synonyms = Landolphia comorensis {{au|(Bojer ex A. DC.) K. Schum.}}

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Saba comorensis is a species of flowering plant in the Apocynaceae family.{{cite web|url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:81757-1|title= Saba comorensis (Bojer ex A.DC.) Pichon|author=|date=n.d.|website=Plants of the World Online|publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date= 25 August 2020}} It is commonly called bungo fruit (pl. mabungo), mbungo, or rubber vine and is widespread across most of tropical Africa as well as in Madagascar and Comoros. The fruit looks similar to an orange with a hard orange peel but when opened it contains a dozen or so pips, which have the same texture as a mango seed.

The fruit also makes a delicious juice drink which has been described as tasting "somewhere between a mango, an orange and a pineapple".{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, The Times, retrieved 30 July 2009] "The highlight is a juice from the bungo fruit, indigenous to Zanzibar, which has a taste somewhere between a mango, an orange and a pineapple." The aromatic juice of the bungo fruit is also popular and highly appreciated on Pemba Island and other parts of coastal Tanzania.{{cite web |url= http://www.worldagroforestry.org/treedb2/AFTPDFS/Saba_comorensis.pdf |title= Saba comorensis in Agroforestree Database |work=web page|accessdate =30 July 2012}}

In the Tanzanian Mahale Mountains National Park, S. comorensis is dispersed by chimpanzees.James V. Wakibara. Abundance and dispersion of some chimpanzee-dispersed fruiting plants at Mahale, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology Vol. 43, Issue 2, pp. 107–113, May 2005. Article first published online: 27 MAY 2005. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2005.00553.x