Parasites: Soaking crushed fresh leaves in water for 6 h and the water is taken orally.
Diabetes: Soaking crushed fresh leaves in water and the water is taken orally.
Infections: Soaking crushed fresh leaves in water and the water is taken orally.
Source: Hassan-Abdallah A., Ali Merito, Souad Hassan, Djaltou Aboubaker, Mahdi Djama, Zemede Asfaw, Ensermu Kelbessa. 2013. Medicinal plants and their uses by the people in the Region of Randa, Djibouti. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 148: 701–713.
OTHER: The wood is fairly hard and is used for making spoons and other small wood utensils such as bowls and combs. Larger pieces of wood are used for roof structures.
It is not grazed by animals.
Source: Friis, I. Flora of Somalia 2: 85.
Flora of Somalia 2: 84
Plants shrubs or trees up to 6 (-9) m tall; trunks to 25 cm in diameter; bark grey, with longitudinal fissures. Leaves 2-5 cm long, 0.5-2.5 cm long, obovate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, dark grey-green, leathery, with indistinct venation, bases cuneate, tips usually rounded or emarginate, rarely apiculate. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, cymes composed of a terminal pistillate flower subtended by 2 staminate flowers; Staminate flowers: stamens 4; filaments about 3 mm long; ovary rudimentary. Capsules 1-1.5 cm long, about 0.7 cm wide, ovoid. Seeds 5-7 mm long, ellipsoid, dark brown, shining.
Buxus hildebrandtii grows in open Juniperus procera forests, forming a Buxus-Juniperus association with Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, Cadia purpurea, and Dracaena ombet and Buxus-Acokanthera evergreen bushland association, the latter frequently in almost monospecific stands on the slopes of rocky gullies of wadis. It also forms clumps in Acacia-Commiphora bushland, on both limestone and volcanic rocks. Buxus hildebrandtii grows at (300-)600-2000 m in Somaliland and Somalia, being known from regions recognized in the Flora of Somalia as N1-N3 and an isolated locality in region C1.
