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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(Previously Vernonia hildebrantii)
Family: Asteraceae -Compositae
GIR: Mlaza-koma
Woody shrub, scandent, Self seeded. Propogate from seeds, cuttings, wildlings. Slightly invasive.
A very popular nectar food for butterflies. The roots are used in traditional medicine.
Moth host –
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Family: Asteraceae
An succulent perennial herb with long stems us to 45cm tall. Fleashy tuberous rootstock, Red /orange flowers around 30mm diameter with a lonf flowering period. Very attractive nectar plant for butterflies.
Propogate by seed or branch cuttings.
Image shown is K. galpinii (K. abyssinica to follow when I acquire one)
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Family: Asteraceae -Compositae
Herb or shrub to 1M tall.
Medicinal use.
Nectar food plant for butterflies
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Family: Asphodelaceae -Xanthorrhoeaceae
GIR: Kitozi
Grows in woodland around Kilifi
The plant is classified as ‘Endangered’ in the IUCN
Red List of Threatened Species
An evergreen, succulent, perennial plant producing a rosette of leaves. The plant often produces suckers and can form small clumps.
The plant is harvested from the wild for local medicinal use.
Attracts sunbirds
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Family: Asparagacaea (Dracaenaceae)
GIR: Chongwa
Frutescent, grows in thick stands, rhizomes subterranean; stem upright, terete, 1–1.5 m high. Inflorescence 0.5 m long with small white flowers and orange berries.
The leaves are used for poison.
Grows on the cliff face
Family: Asparagacaea (Dracaenaceae)
Multi stemmed shrub up to 15M
Highly fragrant pink – white flowers attractive to insects. Popular with birds
Sometimes available in plant nurseries
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Family: Asparagacaea (Anthericaceae)
Herb with spongy roots up to 50cm. Green white flowers. Grows in sun/ shade.
Ants are attracted to the flowers.
Grows on the coral cliff face. Propogate from seeds and cuttings.
Family: Asparagaceae (Hyacinthaceae)
Grows on the coastal cliff.
Bulb with green /white flowers to 1M tall. The bulb is used in traditional medicine.
Host to:
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