Casuarina equisetifolia

Casuarina are planted by farmers in this part of Kenya to provide a useful construction material. They grow straight with timber that is hard and strong. The poles are used in making traditional house roofs, fencing and as a skeleton for mud walls. Very fast growing, they can attain a height of 10 metres after as little as 7 years. A very fast growing species of tree that is used for the poles that local people build their house walls and roofs from.