Rourea Orientalis
Family: Connaraceae
Shrub or small tree to 6M
Fragrant flowers
May be host plant to:
- Coeliades keithloa
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Tag: Butterflies & Moths
Maerua Angolensis
Family: Capparaceae
Shrub or tree to 10M tall.
Scented flowers attract butterflies and insect-eating birds. Larval host to many butterflies.
The tree is easily propagated by seeds. Prepare the seeds for sowing by removing the fruit pulp.
Self seeded
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Capparis Cartilaginea Decne.
Family: Capparaceae.
Self seeded. Grown from seed or cuttings. This plant is often flowering and always covered in Colotis butterflies and ants. Medicinal use in Africa and fruit is eaten. Leaves are toxic to sheep and cattle.
In other parts of Africa, Capparis is recorded as a larval food plant for Appias, Belenois, Colotis, Dixeia, Eronia, Leptosia, Nepheronia, and Pinacopteryx.
There is no evidence from the coast that this is a larval food plant, but Capparis is regularly visited by butterflies.
Monkeys eat the fruit and antelope eat the leaves
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Thylachium Thomasii Gilg
Family: Capparaceae
Self seeded. Grown from seed or cuttings.This plant is often flowering and always covered in
Colotis butterflies and ants.
May be a larval food plant for Appias, Belenois, Colotis, Dixeia, Eronia, Leptosia, Nepheronia, and
Pinacopteryx.
There is no evidence from the coast that this is a larval food plant, but is regularly visited by butterflies, as seen by the Colotis left.
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Hilsenbergia Petiolaris
(previously Bourreria petiolaris )
Family: Boraginaceae
KSW: mpanda-yongoo
GIR: Mbunduki
Family Boraginaceae
Self seeded shrub or small tree 0.3 to 7.7M
Visited by Tortricidae fruit feeding moths. Possibly larval host to Ethmia sp. Often visited by butterflies.
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Cordia Subcordata
Family: Boraginaceae
KSW: Mkomwe
GIR: Mkete
Self seeded at the beach high tide.
7-10M.
4cm orange flowers with edible 1cm fruit.
Available from Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery
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Kigelia Africana
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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Fernandoa Magnifica
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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Gymnanthemum Hildebrandtii Vatke
(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 –
- Basiothia charis,
- Ludia orinoptena Karsch
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Kleinia Abyssinica Var Hilderbrantii
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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