They prefer to eat fleshy fruit, but will change their diet in response to scarcity of ripe fruit.

It has opposing leaves that show elastic threads when broken, and red fleshy fruit that becomes dry later in the year.

With fleshy fruits, the mantled guereza prefers to eat them unripe, which may serve to reduce competition with primates that eat ripe fruits.

Book one describes the uses for aromatic oils, salves and ointments, trees and shrubs, and fleshy fruits, even if not aromatic.

Common syndrome characteristics include small fleshy fruits with bright colours and without husks.