Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Bidens chuchuza, | |
| bipinnata * | |
| Food: | Edible leaves & shoots. High food value but astringent taste. |
| biternata * | |
| Food: | Edible leaves & shoots |
| pilosa * (Black-Jack) cadvolo, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for rheumatism, diarrhoea & ear ailments. |
| Food: | Edible leaves |
| Berkheya likhakhasi, ikhakhasi, | |
| echinacea subsp. echinacea iphungula, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal |
| montana | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for bruises |
| rhapontica | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for dry coughs. |
| subsp. platyptera | |
| subsp. rhapontica | |
| setifera (Buffalo-tongue Berkheya) lulwimi lwenkhomo, mavambuka, ulimi-lwenkomo, | |
| Cultural: | Repels evil spirits |
| Household: | Leaves used as hairbrush. |
| Medicinal: | Roots for stomach complaints |
| Food: | Young leaves used as spinach. |
| speciosa subsp. lanceolata | |
| Medicinal: | Abdominal disorders, bilharzia & sore eyes |
| zeyheri | |
| Firewood: | Firewood. |
| Household: | Furniture and handicrafts. |
| Medicinal: | Bark medicinal for baby's navel, for diarrhoea & as a diuretic. |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| subsp. rehmannii var. rehmannii | |
| subsp. rehmannii var. rogersiana | |
| subsp. zeyheri | |
| Bothriochloa | |
| bladhii | |
| Fodder: | Fodder |
| insculpta | |
| Fodder: | Grazing |
| Brachiaria | |
| brizantha | |
| Fodder: | Fodder |
| deflexa | |
| Food: | Cereal food |
| humidicola | |
| Soil Conservation: | Erosion control |
| nigropedata | |
| Fodder: | Palatble pasture with high forage value. |
| serrata | |
| Fodder: | Pasture of average value. |
| Bromus | |
| catharticus * | |
| Soil Conservation: | Erosion control. |
| Fodder: | Good winter pasture. Tendency to be invasive. |
| Baccharoides | |
| adoensis var. kotschyana imphepho, lincani, linyatsela, linyatselo, mphepho, | |
| Cultural: | Treating hunting dogs |
| Medicinal: | For stomach, chest, skin, head lice & diabetes. Roots are purgative. |
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