Ugandan greenheart/ Pepper-bark tree

KES 1,000

Highly valued indigenous medicinal tree renowned for its glossy, dark green foliage and distinctively peppery, sharp, and hot tasting bark and leaves. Reaching a mature height of 12 to 20 meters with a dense, spreading canopy of 8 to 15 meters, this hardy evergreen provides excellent shade while serving as a powerful, multi-purpose landscape tree that combines aromatic beauty with rich traditional value. Frequently called the pepper-bark tree due to the spicy, peppery taste of its bark and leaves. Muthiga (in Kikuyu) and Osokonoi (in Maasai)