Development of the medicinal plant garden at Aburi Botanic Garden
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The medicinal plant garden is a major development at Aburi that will provide an important future source of material for propragation. It will also provide a demonstration site for sustainable harvesting techniques. |
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| Entrance to the medicinal plant garden nursery. |
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| Seedlings under cultivation prior to transplantation. |
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William Ofosuhene-Djan (Project officer responsible for development of the medicinal plant garden), Konings Ampansah (Project officer - data management) and Harriet Gillett (Project manager) inspecting seedlings ready for transplanting. |
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| Gardeners planting out seedling. |
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Griffonia simplicifolia seedling recently transplanted to enrich the 50 hectare medicinal plant forest side on the northern slope of Aburi Botanic Garden. G.simplicifolia (local name "kagya") has a wide range of uses including medicinal (humans and animals), brushwood, basketry, chewing sticks and as a dye. It represents the largest single plant material exported from Ghana in recent times for mediicinal purposes. Source: Abbiw, D. K.1990. Useful plants of Ghana. Intermediate Technology Publications and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 337pp. |