Family: Bignoniaceae
DUR: Mtwawanda/Mtalawanda
GIR: Muhamdala
Small tree 4-5M grows in coastal forest.
Flowers are visited by ants.
This tree flourishes in Kilifi.
The leaves and roots are used to treat and protect against snakebites.
Available from Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery
May be larval host to Andriasa contraria
Family: Bignoniaceae
KSW: Mwegea, Mvungwa
GIR: Muratina
Tree to 20M. Maroon trumpeted flowers. Fruits like giant sausages
Flowers attract. insects and birds. Monkeys and porcupine eat fruit. Monkeys eat flower nectar. Antelope eat fallen flowers. May be pollinated by fruit bats. Charaxes visit the tree.
Fruit is used for skin cream.
Locally available at nurseries.
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Family: Bignoniaceae
GIR: Munyala
Small, often multi-stemmed tree. Flowers orange-red with a yellow centre; corolla bell-shaped, up to 10 cm in diameter. Fruit a long. slender capsule, 30-55 cm long, flattened, spirally twisted.
The leaves and roots are used to treat and protect against snakebites.
Available Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery
Larval foodplant to
Epiphora mythimnia – White-ringed atlas
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