Family: Araceae
GIR: Konzwi
Evergreen with potato like rhizome. Grows on the coastal cliff face and will grow in dark dry shade.
Propogate from leaf cuttings, stem cuttings or rhizome offshoots.
An extract from the plant is used for ear drops.
An attractive foliage plant very suited to coastal climate.
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Family: Araceae
ENG: Doum Palm
KWS: Mkoma, Mkoche
Branching palm to 18M
Fruit is eaten by baboons, monkeys and elephants.
Fruit is edible and the sap used for alcohol, leaves used for baskets and thatch. Turacos are often sitting in my palm.
Self seeded.
Butterflies & Moths
Bebearia cocalia – Spectre
Zophopetes dysmephila – Palm Tree Nighfighter
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Family: Araceae
GIR: Konzwi
Seasonally dormant tuber. Leaves to 1.2M tall, spadex green flowers appear before leaves. Self seeded. Shade/ partial shade.
An attractive foliage plant.
The roots are used to treat mumps.
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Family: Araceae
Arum family with underground tuber.
Grows on Kilifi Plantation under the tree canopy.
Leaf petiole up to 1M long. I have grown from seed.