Kamba woods/trees

Some native trees and their uses.

1. Mukau: wood
2. Kitungu: Live fence, wood?
3. Muuku/Kiuuku: Traditional mortars and pestles (ndii na mithi), fuel tree for traditional brick kilns (kuvivya ndumbia), leaves are a last resort food for cattle and goats in drought times, firewood
4. Kilaa: fuel tree for traditional brick kilns (kuvivya ndumbia), leaves great food for goats, fruit pods greatly loved by cattle and goats during summer months (August, september), firewood
5. Kinina: one of the best fuel tree for traditional brick kilns (kuvivya ndumbia), riverine plant good for stemying soil erosion at river banks and depressions (matwiku), leaves are a last resort food for cattle and goats in drought times, firewood
6. Kiatine: the treated fruit is used in fermenting sugarcane juice/honey/sugar solutions to make traditional beer (kaluvu)
7. Kitithi/Mutithi: Good for firewood
8. Itula: Nice red wood, live fence?
9. Musemei: leaves great food for goats, fruit pods greatly loved by cattle and goats during summer months (August, september), firewood
10. Kikuyu/Mukuyu: riverine plant good for stemying soil erosion at river banks and depressions (matwiku) truly majestic when mature
11. Kyumbu: riverine plant good for stemying soil erosion at river banks and depressions (matwiku)? truly majestic when mature
12. Kitoo: wild fruit tree, fruits very yummy, honey harvesting by bees?
13. Kilului: leaves are a last resort food for cattle and goats in drought times, one of the best fuel tree for traditional brick kilns (kuvivya ndumbia), goats and sheep love chewing on the fruit during summer months (August, September)
14. Kyuasi: Inner bark produces red dye for use in dying sisal fibre. Truly majestic when mature
15. Ikonge (Agave sisalana): Leaves are squeezed in an implement called Kikunio to produce white fibre. Fibre is used to make ropes, sacks and baskets (syondo). Cattle chew on the leaves during extreme drought.
16. Kithulu (Croton Megalocarpus): Nothing great to say about this tree other than I have one in my kyuu kya n'gombe. Seriously dries up area around its base. No grass, beans, maize...nothing will grow there. I think it's a bad tree, though I have seen cattle and goats chew on the seeds during extreme drought.