Abstract:
Almost all plants and plant products used in processing traditional medicines are woody species and are collected from the wild. Very rarely are medicinal plants traditionally cultivated in Uganda. With the increasing local and international demand of traditional medicine, wild plants are threatened with extinction as a result of both over exploitation and poor extraction methods. Domestication of selected high value tree species and their integration into tree-crop farming systems is a growing research area for the Agroforestry programme. Warburgia ugandensis has been identified as one of indigenous tree species with potential for Agroforestry because of its attributes of being highly medicinal, provides timber, fuel wood and poles. It is currently regarded as one of the high and multipurpose trees.