Ovambo brew a traditional liquor called "ombike". It is distilled from fermented fruit mash and particularly popular in rural areas. The fruit to produce ombike are collected from makalani palms ("Hyphaene petersiana"), jackal berries ("Diospyros mespiliformis"), buffalo thorns ("Ziziphus mucronata"), bird plumes and cluster figs ("Ficus racemosa"). "Ombike", with additives like sugar, is also brewed and consumed in urban areas. This liquor is then called "omangelengele"; it is more potent and sometimes poisonous. "New Era", a Namibian English-language daily newspaper, reported that clothes, shoes, and tyres have been found to have been brewed as ingredients of "omangelengele".