(Previously Clerodendrum Incisum)
Family: Lamiaceae
GIR: Karusapungu
This is a shrub to 2.5M tall. Grows in coastal thicket and forest under-storey. The leaves and bark are
medicinal.
Available from Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery
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(Previously Clerodendrum Glabrum)
Family: Lamiaceae
GIR: Mkula-usiku
TSW: Mtozatoza
This is a small tree with smelly leaves and scented flowers. The flowers attract many insects, especially butterflies.
Self seeded
Possibly larval host to:
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Family: Lamiaceae
Shrub, 0.8m –5 m tall. Scented corolla dark reddish brown or blackish purple.
Forest underplant.
Traditionally timber is used to burn for aromatic smell, and for spear handles.
Available from Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery.
I do not have permission to use any Kenya photographs of Tinnea aethiopica. The Tinnea rhodesiana from Zambia looks similar, images hopefully to be replaced with the real thing.
Family: Lamiaceae
GIR: Mvuma
Self seeded.
Shrub — small tree to 4M. Self seeded. Edible fruits. The twigs and roots have medicinal properties properties and the roots are used to make perfumes.
The shrub is attractive to butterflies
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Family: Lamiaceae
ENG: Indian Borage
A succulent leafed low perennial growing herb on the cliff. Leaves are fragrant and used for flavoring food. The essential oil from the leaves can be used as mosquito repellent.
Butterflies
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Family: Icacinaceae
Swahili: Ria
Climber with large tuberous rootstock.
Self seeded.
The large tubers form the major food resource for the naked mole-rat. The foraging tunnels often run completely through the larger tubers, which are periodically plugged with soil and allowed to regenerate. However, the tubers are randomly distributed and the inter-tuber distances can be relatively high, making them hard to find. (Source : Life of Succulents)
Soaked leaves are placed on the ground against jiggers; leaves used against boils and rushes.
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(Previous Name Acacia Robusta)
Family: Fabaceae, Leguminosae – Mimosaceae
KWS: Mgunga
Gir: Mtsemeri/Mgunga
Self seeded. This is a small to medium, upright, deciduous thorn tree consisting of a narrow crown. Up
to 10m. Creamy pompom flowers. The strongly scented flowers attract bees and butterflies, and many other insects. The seed pods are eaten by herbivores and monkeys. Vachelia roots are nitrogen fixing making it suitable for underplanting. Larval host to many butterflies.
The roots and stem bark as medicines for chest pains, colds and coughs.
Available: Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery.
Valchellia may be host to the below butterflies (refer Valchellia Butterflies):
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(Previously Acacia Nilotica)
Family: Fabaceae, Leguminosae – Mimosaceae
ENG: Gum Arabic Tree /Egyptian Acacia
KWS: Mgunga
GIR: Muoti
Tree 5 to 20M. Self seeded.
This is the ancient Egyptian tree of life and the Acacia is derived from Greek.
Flowers are visited by bees and butterflies. Bush babies eat the gum. I wake up to a cacaphony of birds sitting in the tree. The leaves are larval host to azanus species of butterly.
The roots and stem bark are uses as medicines for coughs
Available – Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery.
Valchellia may be host to the below butterflies (refer Valchellia Butterflies):
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Family: Fabaceae sub-family Caesalpiniaceae
KSW: Mkwaju.
GIR: Mukwaju
Indigenous or naturalised, large & beautiful, deciduous tree to 25 m with very hard wood. Fruits edible & loved by monkeys. Slow-growing.
Available from local nurseries
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Family: Fabaceae -Leguminosae sub family Papilionaceae
GIR: Mhamna
Bushy tree 7m-10 m. Flowers in lovely large lavender sprays before rains. Very hard timber.
Host to Plecoptera hypoxantha.
Available from Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery.