Family Moracea
This is a large, spreading tree usually about 12 metres in height but reaching 25 to 30 in ideal conditions.
The wood is light and soft and though it is of little commercial value, it has a number of practical uses. Africans make drums from it and in the days of wagons it provided effective brake-blocks. Sticks produced fire by friction.
Several African folk-remedies are made and burns, septic conjunctivitis are treated with and application of its latex. Infusions of the bark and leaves is administered to cows if their milk production is considered inadequate.
In East Africa, this tree is sacred and sacrifices of goats are made to it to appease spirits, to bring rain and ensure a good harvest.
