The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Rhamnus prinoides
Also called Glossy Leaf, Shiny Leaf, Kamdebo Stinkwood, Shiny Leaved Buckthorn, Shinyleaf, Shiny Leaf Buckthorn, Dogwood
Gesho (Rhamnus prinoides) is an African shrub or small tree of mid to high elevation montane forest margins and stream banks, used mainly as a hops substitute in fermented drinks. Growing it is about giving it cool, moist conditions and sun-to-part-shade light.
Rhamnus prinoides, the shiny-leaf buckthorn, is an African shrub or small tree in the family Rhamnaceae. Commonly referred to as gesho, it was first scientifically described by French botanist Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle in 1789.
The Rhamnus prinoides plant has many uses amongst the inhabitants of Africa. All parts of the plant are harvested and used for nutrition, medicine or religious purposes.
Mediterranean Buckthorn · Common buckthorn · Rhamnus integrifolia · Buckthorn
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gesho 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.
