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Karomia gigas
Karomia gigas is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is now found only in Tanzania, where only small populations survive. It was previously also found in Kenya but is now considered extinct there.
In 2016 Botanic Gardens Conservation International found six Karomia gigas trees in one location in Tanzania. They employed local Tanzanians to guard the trees and report if there were any seeds so that they could be cultivated in a Tanzanian botanical garden.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Karomia gigas by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
