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Brachystegia boehmii
Also called Mufuti, Prince Of Wales Feathers
Brachystegia boehmii is a deciduous, flat-topped tree of African miombo woodland, native to eastern and southern Africa. It is a timber and woodland species rather than a garden plant, so care-at-a-glance details below apply mainly to rare cultivation.
Brachystegia boehmii, named after the 19th-century German naturalist and collector Richard Böhm, is a decidious, flat-topped tree with a spreading crown, native to eastern and southern Africa.
It forms an important component of miombo woodland, and occurs in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. Common names are machabel (Mashonaland), mufuti (Zimbabwe) and Prince of Wales feathers. Occurring in the altitude range 900 – 1600 m.
The wood is medium reddish brown, heavy, tough and strong with a slightly interlocking grain. It is not easy to work with and blunts tools very quickly. In Shona culture, infusions of the tree leaf have traditionally been used for treatment of constipation and lumbago amongst other things.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Brachystegia boehmii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
