Saba comorensis (Bojer) Pichon

Liana up to 20 m long; trunk up to 15 cm in diameter; wood reddish or yellow; bark rough, scaly, often fissured.. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate or elliptic, 4.5–24 cm long, 3.4–12 cm wide, rounded, obtuse or rarely shortly acuminate at the apex, oblique, rounded or subcordate at the base; petiole 7.5–20 mm long.. Inflorescence a many-flowered congested cyme; peduncle 2–6(–32) cm long; pedicels 1–7 mm long.. Flowers white with a yellow or orange throat; sepals 1.7–4 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; tube greenish, 16–34 mm long; lobes 19–41 mm long, 4–12 mm wide; ovary with a ring of white stiff hairs at the apex, ovules ± 50; stigmoid apex up to 2.2 mm long.. Fruit yellow or orange, (sub-)globose, up to 11 cm in diameter; pericarp 1–2.4 cm thick; very young fruits hairy; seeds whitish, yellow to brown, up to 1 cm in diameter.. Fig. 10 (p. 33).

A tropical plant. It grows in closed forest in West Africa and also in savannah woodland. It is often near the banks of streams. In Malawi it grows from 500-1,300 m altitude. In Tanzania it grows between up to 1,800 m above sea level and in areas with a rainfall between 1,200-2,400 mm. It can grow in arid places.

The ripe fruit is eaten raw. The seeds are discarded. The seeds are also eaten. The pulp is soaked in water, sugar added and the the juice drunk.

Plants are grown from seeds. The seeds germinate more easily after passing through the gut of an animal. It can also be grown from cuttings.