Family: Apocynaceae
GIR: Mudigizo-mwitu
Evergreen shrub or tree to 15M.
The tree is used as a food, medicine and source of wood and latex. Sweet-scented white flowers. The 3cm long yellow orange fruit is edible.
Twigs and leaves are insecticidal. The bark has alkaloids.
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Family: Apocynaceae
GIR: Mtandamboo/Nvuje-ya-tsi
Shrub to 3M with scented flowers with edible fruit.
Spiny.
The leaves and roots are used medicinally.
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Family: Apocynaceae
GIR: Mutongazi/Mutungazi
DUR: Muhonga/Muhonga-udide
Self seeded.
Scrambling shrub with fragrant white flowers and yellow fruit (flesh is edible – but the skin may be poisonous)
The stem and leaves are used as a good luck charm.
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Family: Annonaceae
GIR: Mudzala simba/Mucherere/Muvipo/Mubulushi
Shrub or small tree. Sweet scented flowers. Fruit is green with white marks to 7cm long.
Habitat: Evergreen forest, on coral, also rain-forest, evergreen thickets and bushland, Brachystegia, Julbernardia
thickets, wooded grassland; at elevations from sea level to 900 metres.
The fruit is edible. The leaves and roots are used to treat spiritual ailments.
Available from Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery
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Family: Annonaceae
TSW: Mkilua mwitu
GIR : Muszhondoheranguluwe
Shrub or tree to 8M tall.
Habitat: sometimes dominant in the shrub layer of lowland evergreen forest. Aromatic bark. Sometimes
used for food flavouring. Flowers with unpleasant scent. Green petals turn white / crimson.
The roots and leaves are used as medicines.
Available at Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery.
Possibly host plant to:
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Family: Anacardiaceae
Gir: Mnyumbu
Ksw: Muyumbu-maji
Small to medium-sized, deciduous tree(7 to 9M) with its small, creamy white to yellow flowers and aromatic leaves.
Self seeded.
The fruit are edible.
The leaves of this tree are eaten by antelope. The fruits also attract many different bird species and monkeys. Bark used for making tea, rope, dye, a decoction against head and stomache ache, wood used for making stools and grain pestles and charcoal.
When in flower and in fruit my tree is visited all day by birds and monkeys and at night by bush babies.
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