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Botanical name: Tarenna graveolens
Description:
Uses: Edible fruits (check). Number 3. It has a good smell, but when it is used more frequently it becomes bitter.
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Description: Pictured specimen collected in the West Gate Conservancy near Lengusaka, Kenya, in June 2016. If you know the botanical name, please share in the comments. My notes suggest that the wood is used to prepare lmalasin. These are the seed heads.
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Botanical name: Teclea nobilis
Description: “Shrub or tree; bark smooth, grey; branchlets glabrous. … Petals yellowish.”
Uses: Sweet/middling, preparation wood for calabash.
Source: F.M. Mutiso, “Recovery of Kakamega Tropical Rainforest from Anthropogenic Disturbances.” Journal of Tropical Forest Science, Vol. 25, No. 4 (October 2013), pp. 566-576. https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Teclea.nobilis (accessed 01/20/2025).
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Botanical name: Teclea simplicifolia
Description:
Uses:
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Description: Lussen hills
Uses:
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Milking cup, used to milk into larger lmala.
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Botanical name:
Description: Lussen hills/sunya.
Uses: Has chewing gum.
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Botanical name: Maerua crassifolia [Maerua endlichii on Alois Plant List]
Description: “Small spreading much branched tree up to 9 m. tall, often with a rounded flattish crown. Young twigs usually densely hairy. … Range Sudan Republic to Senegal and North Africa, also Ethiopia and Somali Republic to Arabia and Palestine.”
Uses: Sweet, not bitter, wood for preparing lmalasin.
Source: JSTOR Global Plants (accessed July 2024).
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Botanical name: Acacia oerfota, Fabaceae family (Acacia nubica on Alois Plant List)
Description: Pictured specimen collected near Lengusaka, Kenya. “Commonly occurs in deciduous bushland and semi‑desert scrub from Egypt, the Sudan and Eritrea and into Kenya. … A [thorny] shrub to 5 m, branching from the base, irregular or flat topped.”
Uses: “Firewood, poles (hut frames), medicine (bark), fodder (leaves, twigs, pods), fibre (bark). … A bark extract is used to treat rheumatism.”
Source: Bekele-Tesemma, Azene. Useful Trees and Shrubs of Ethiopia. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre, 2007. https://apps.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees/pdflib/Acacia_oerfota_ETH.pdf (accessed July 2024).
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