Scientific Name:
Common Name: Large Leafed Cordia
Family: Boraginaceae
Names in other languages: Makobokobo(Swahilli)
General Information
A large deciduous forest tree with rounded cown and often crooked trunk reaching of 15 m. Widely distributed in wooded grassland forest and riverine areas at altitude of 1200-2,100m Very common throughout East Africa very attractive in flower
The Bark is Pale Brown rough and fissured with age
The Leaves are large oval up to 160mm long apex tapering and base rounded; dull dark, green above player below veins prominent below; young shoots leaf stalks and underside of leaves covered with soft brown hairs
The flowers are white snowy funnel shaped sweetly scented and attractive to bees in dense terminal masses
Uses
The heartwiood is reddish-brown, light and durable; used in making of furniture and beehives: also as a general timber and fuel the fruit is edible
Fresh juice from the bark is applied to the affected area to treat broken bone
Bark
Leaves
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