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Table 12.5 (cont.)

Utility

Plant Plant Normal Local Comment/

species family life-form name Medicinal Craft Food Fuelwood Other remarks

Euphorbia Euphorbiaceae Erect shrub - - - - Fodder -

heterophylla
Ficus exasperata Moraceae Large tree Sabatso Treatment - - Fuelwood - Charcoal burns

of thorn well

wounds

Fantasia africana Apocynaceae Large tree - - - - - - -

Funtumia elastica Apocynaceae Large tree - - - - - - -

Gloriosa superba Liliaceae Small climbing - Delayed - - - - Medication is mainly

shrub walking domestic

in infants

Grewia carpinofolia Tiliaceae Large liane - - - - - - -

Griffornia
simplicifolia Caesalpinaceae Climbing shrub Totolimo - - - - Chewing Seeds are usually

stick harvested and sold

Hibiscus esculenta Malvaceae Erect shrub - - - - - - -

Holarrhena Apocynaceae Tree Kiakin/oflutu - Ladle and - Fuelwood Yam- Hard wood mainly

floribunda stools pole for carving the

chief's stool and
gunboat

Hippocratea sp. Celastraceae Large liane - - - - - - -