Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Adiantum | |
| capillus-veneris | |
| Medicinal: | Smoke from fronds for respiratory tract disorders. Also hair & scalp. |
| poiretii | |
| Medicinal: | Smoke from fronds for respiratory tract disorders. Also hair & scalp. |
| raddianum * | |
| Medicinal: | Smoke from fronds for respiratory tract disorders. Also hair & scalp. |
| Andropogon | |
| chinensis | |
| Fodder: | Fodder |
| gayanus var. polycladus | |
| Fodder: | Fodder |
| schirensis | |
| Fodder: | Fodder |
| Alloteropsis | |
| semialata | |
| Fodder: | Pasture grass. |
| subsp. eckloniana | |
| subsp. semialata | |
| Arundinella | |
| nepalensis | |
| Fodder: | Pasture grass. |
| Household: | Thatching |
| Aristida | |
| congesta | |
| Timber: | Timber/ for construction. |
| Household: | Thatching |
| subsp. barbicollis | |
| subsp. congesta | |
| junciformis | |
| Household: | Used to make brooms. |
| subsp. galpinii | |
| subsp. junciformis | |
| transvaalensis | |
| Aleurites | |
| moluccana * | |
| Household: | Oily seed kernals crushed and used as a fuel for a torch or candle. |
| Annesorhiza | |
| flagellifolia (Anise Root) sibhadze, | |
| Food: | Edible leaves, fruit & roots |
| Aspilia | |
| natalensis (Wild Creeping Sunflower) umphamephuce, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal with potent antibiotic, fungicidal & vermicidal properties |
| Artabotrys | |
| monteiroae (Hook-berry Bush) umazwenda, | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| Agave | |
| americana * | |
| Medicinal: | Sap & roots for digestive disorders, ulcers & muscous inflammation |
| sisalana * (Sisal) halibhoma, | |
| Household: | Used for sisal ropes and string. Leaf can yield both needle & thread. |
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