Rosaceae FAMILY

Hagenia abyssinica

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Hagenia abyssinica is a rather slender open-crowned dioecious tree growing from 5 - 25 metres tall[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The unbuttressed bole is usually short and crooked with the bark peeling in strips and sometimes very thick on old stems[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 418 Title Ecocrop Publication Author Website http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Basic information on a wide range of useful plants, plus details of environmental needs where available. ]. The tree is a highly valued medicinal plant, being commonly harvested from the wild for local use. It used to be traded internationally as an anthelmintic, but with the advent of chemical alternatives its use has greatly reduced. It is still sold in local markets in Ethiopia[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The plant is sometimes deliberately left in farmland or derived grassland and may be occasionally planted where it occurs naturally because of its medicinal properties[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ]. The tree also provides a timber that makes a good fuel and charcoal, and is used in soil stabilization projects. An attractive tree with its strands of red flowers, it is suitable for planting in amenity areas[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeEastern Africa - Central African Republic to Ethiopia, south to Tanzania and Zambia.

HabitatOften dominant in the woodland zone just above the mountain bamboo at elevations of 2,000 - 3,000 metres[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ]. It occurs in undifferentiated afro-montane forest and dry single dominant afro-montane forest; at lower altitudes often at forest margins[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ].