(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
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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(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 -Leguminosae sub family Papilionaceae
GIR: Mushero/Kashero
Herb/ Shrub
Self seeded.
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Family: Fabaceae – Leguminosae – Mimosaceae
GIR: Muchinjiri
A spiny, deciduous shrub or small tree, up to 7 m high, with a rounded crown, 3 m wide.
The plant roots are used in traditional medicine.
Self seeded
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Family: Fabaceae subfamily Caesalpinioideae
Shrub or small tree.
May be larval host to:
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Family: Fabaceae, Leguminosae – Caesalpiniaceae
Medium shrub /small tree
Status: endangered. Endemic to the coast. Sun or shade
The flowers are rich in pollen and nectar, attract various insects such as butterflies and bees. These insects will attract insect eating birds. This is also a host plant for many butterfly species, with the larvae feeding on the leaves.
Available from Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery
Butterflies / Moths :
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The Checklist of Coastal Plants Forests 5 Genera, 31 Species
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