shea tree

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A tropical African tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) having oily seeds that yield shea butter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• (Bot.) An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia Parkii syn. Butyrospermum Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the African butter tree.