{"id":7776,"date":"2020-01-27T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T06:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7776"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"you-want-a-share-of-charcoal-billions-acacia-is-your-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/27\/you-want-a-share-of-charcoal-billions-acacia-is-your-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"You Want A Share Of Charcoal Billions? Acacia Is Your Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yellow-barked\nacacia (Xanthophloea), which I have grown since 2014, is one of the most useful\ntrees in Kenya today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have\nnearly 3,000 of them. The name \u2018\u2019xanthophloea\u2019\u2019 means \u201cyellow bark\u201d and refers\nto the yellow-green bark of the tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is\nnative to Africa. The first Europeans to travel to the continent also called it\n\u2018Fever tree\u2019 because they wrongly believed that it caused malaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree\noften grows in swampy areas or near water, which is breeding ground for the\nfever-carrying mosquitos. This made the Europeans to introduce another tree,\nthe blue gum, to drain the swamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\ncalled it the anti-fever tree. The acacia is so resilient that it can grow\nalmost anywhere with minimal care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plant it\nin a swamp and it will take to life like a fish to water. Dry soils with little\nor no water? No problem, it will survive. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/seedsofgold\/Acacia-is-your-tree\/2301238-5430452-9s1fx\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow-barked acacia (Xanthophloea), which I have grown since 2014, is one of the most useful trees in Kenya today. I have nearly 3,000 of them. The name \u2018\u2019xanthophloea\u2019\u2019 means \u201cyellow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}