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Useful Plants
This page contains a lot of info on how common and less common plants are beneficial to everyday problems. This is carried down from generations of the Bukusus of which I am part of… Enjoy.

KUMUBUMBU - The repairing tree..
KUMUBUMBU (Lannea schimperi) Derivation of the name: Kubumba - to repair. The bark is used as plaster of Paris for fractures. Natural...
Robert Sifuna
Mar 231 min read
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POPCORN SENA.. (totally not popcorn
POPCORN SENA…KUMUBENUBENU (senna didymobotrya) Derivation of the name : Khubenula -to protect. The ash of the tree is licked in the...
Robert Sifuna
Mar 201 min read
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