Sapotaceae
Shea butter
Vitellaria paradoxa
- Family
- Sapotaceae
- Genus
- Vitellaria
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Common names
By language (42)
- Akan
- Nkuto dua, Nkuto
- Arabic
- شية, شجرة الشية
- arz
- زبده
- Bambara
- Si
- Basque
- Karite, Vitellaria
- Catalan
- Karité, Mantega de karité, Oli de karité, Shea
- Chinese
- 乳油木, 牛油果, 乳木果, 雪亞果, 非洲果
- Czech
- Máslovník africký
- dag
- Taaŋa, Tama
- Danish
- Smørtræ
- din
- Rak
- English
- Shea butter, Shea butter tree, Shea tree, Shi tree, Vitellaria
- Esperanto
- Buterarbo
- Estonian
- Võiseemnik
- Finnish
- Voipuu, Karite
- fon
- Wugo
- French
- Karité, Arbre à beurre, Karite
- frr
- Sheanödbuum
- German
- Karitébaum, Afrikanischer Butterbaum, Karité, Schibutterbaum, Sheanussbaum, Sheanußbaum
- gpe
- Shea butter tree, Shea tree, Shi tree, Vitellaria
- Greek
- Καριτέ
- Hausa
- Kaɗe
- Hebrew
- שיאה
- Italian
- Albero del burro, Karitè, Karité
- Japanese
- シアーバターノキ, シアバターノキ
- kcg
- A̱lyii̱t, A̱ka̱lyii̱t, Na̱nsham, Nensham
- kus
- Ta'aŋ, Ta'aŋ tiig
- Lithuanian
- Afrikinis sviestmedis, Sviestmedis, Taukmedis
- Macedonian
- Маслено дрво, Вителарија, Карите, Шеа, Шеја
- Malagasy
- Karite
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Smørtre
- nqo
- ߛߋ߬ߖߎ
- Persian
- درخت روغن قلم
- Polish
- Masłosz Parka, Masłosz
- Portuguese
- Carité, Karité, Karitê
- Russian
- Ши, Дерево Ши, Карите, Каритэ
- sg
- Bâlâwâ, V
- Slovenian
- Karitejevo drevo
- Spanish
- Karite, Karité, Manteca de karite, Manteca de karité, Shea
- Swedish
- Sheanötsträd, Sheanöt, Sheaträd
- Thai
- ต้นเชีย
- Wolof
- Karite
Synonyms
- Butyrospermum paradoxum (C.F.Gaertn.) Hepper
- Lucuma paradoxa (C.F.Gaertn.) A.DC.
Photos
Photo: Marco Schmidt [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Akouete, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.