The Ngwazi's Garden of Learning
Kachere Project

In investigating the Academy trees I have been greatly helped by a local expert, Cliff Kalonga, and by Mr Heavener Daut Phiri of the Landscape Department; I have also consulted the following books from the Library (mostly these are in the Malawiana room downstairs, apart from Palgrave):

 

Bins, B, Logah, L.P., Dictionary of Plant Names in Malawi, 1972;

Pullinger, J.S., Kitchin, A.M., Trees of Malawi, 1982;

Shorter, Clare, An Introduction to the Common Trees of Malawi, 1989;

Forestry Research Institute of Malawi, Trees, shrubs and woody climbers of Zomba Botanic Gardens, 1985;

Palgrave, K.C., Trees of Southern Africa, 1977/ 1981;

Lane, Stewart S., A Field Guide to the Aloes of Malawi, 2004.

 

Other works available in whole or in part on the internet are:

 

Burrows, J., Willis, C. (eds), Plants of the Nyika Plateau, 2005;

Morris, B, Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi;

a survey by the Malawian Environmental Monitoring Programme (MEMP) at http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/malawi/PLUS.html, which gives the Chichewa names of very many trees and other plants;

da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S., Amude, A.B. A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique (2004);

Topham, P. ‘The genus Brachystegia in Nyasaland’, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), 1930, No. 8, pp.348-364.