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Nursery worker preparing seeds

Day laborer working in a nursery for Melia volkensii . The fruit of the tree is pounded to remove the pulp and extract the nut containing the seeds. Prized for its drought tolerance, this indigenous species is planted for the production of high quality timber even in semi-arid climates.

 

Kenya, February 2017

 

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Photo by Andrew Wu, World Resources Institute.

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Uploaded on June 2, 2017