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.
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: Araceae
ENG: Doum Palm
KWS: Mkoma, Mkoche
Branching palm to 18M
Fruit is eaten by baboons, monkeys and elephants.
Fruit is edible and the sap used for alcohol, leaves used for baskets and thatch. Turacos are often sitting in my palm.
Self seeded.
Butterflies & Moths
Bebearia cocalia – Spectre
Zophopetes dysmephila – Palm Tree Nighfighter
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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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