Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Chironia | |
| krebsii (Kreb's Gentian) umanqunduswazi, umbangwangwa, | |
| Medicinal: | For colic and diarrhoea in children |
| palustris | |
| Medicinal: | For colic and diarrhoea in children |
| subsp. rosacea | |
| subsp. transvaalensis | |
| purpurascens | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal |
| subsp. humilis | |
| subsp. purpurascens | |
| Carissa umvusankunzi, | |
| bispinosa (Num-num Shrub) umbethankunzi, umbetsankunzi, | |
| Medicinal: | Root medicinal for toothache |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| subsp. bispinosa | |
| subsp. zambesiensis | |
| tetramera (African Viagra) lucondvo, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for impotence in men. An African Viagra. |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| Cryptolepis | |
| oblongifolia | |
| Food: | Edible leaves |
| Ceropegia | |
| ampliata var. ampliata | |
| Food: | Tubers of all Ceropegia spp.believed to be edible. A famine food. |
| carnosa | |
| Food: | Tubers of all Ceropegia spp.believed to be edible. A famine food. |
| cimiciodora | |
| Food: | Tubers of all Ceropegia spp.believed to be edible. A famine food. |
| crassifolia var. crassifolia | |
| Food: | Eaten as a vegetable |
| decidua | |
| Food: | Tubers of all Ceropegia spp.believed to be edible. A famine food. |
| subsp. decidua | |
| subsp. pretoriensis | |
| fortuita | |
| Food: | Tubers of all Ceropegia spp.believed to be edible. A famine food. |
| linearis | |
| Food: | Edible stems for water. Edible tubers |
| subsp. linearis | |
| subsp. woodii | |
| meyeri | |
| Food: | Leaves eaten as spinach by Vendas. Edible tubers. |
| nilotica var. nilotica | |
| Food: | Tubers eaten by Bushmen in Namibia. |
| pachystelma subsp. pachystelma | |
| Food: | Tubers of all Ceropegia spp.believed to be edible. A famine food. |
| rendallii | |
| Food: | Edible tubers. |
| sandersonii | |
| Food: | Tubers of all Ceropegia spp.believed to be edible. A famine food. |
| stapeliiformis subsp. serpentina | |
| Food: | Tubers of all Ceropegia spp.believed to be edible. A famine food. |
| Cuscuta | |
| campestris * (Dodder) umankunkunku, unyendenyende, | |
| Convolvulus | |
| farinosus (Bindweed) umkhokha wehlathi, | |
| Medicinal: | Purgative & emetic fot stomach ache. |
| sagittatus (Bindweed) uvimbukhalo, | |
| Cordia | |
| caffra (Septee) umlovu, | |
| Timber: | Fence posts & huts |
| Firewood: | Sticks can make fire by friction. |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal. |
| Food: | Edible fruit but not tasty. |
| monoica (Cork Bush) lilovu lelimnyama, lilovu lelimyama, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal. |
| Food: | Edible red fruit. |
| Cynoglossum | |
| hispidum | |
| Medicinal: | Probably poisonous. |
| Chascanum | |
| incisum | |
| Food: | Used as spinach |
| Clerodendrum | |
| glabrum var. glabrum (White Cat's Whiskers) umphehlacwatsi, umphelacwatsi, | |
| Honey: | Sweet scented flower for bees. |
| Cultural: | Scattered for ancestors. A rain tree. |
| Firewood: | Good wood for starting fires. |
| Medicinal: | Leaves for colic, coughs, colds, anal prolapse & wounds. Roots for snakebites. Bark as a dewormer. |
| ternatum (Blue Cat's Whiskers) umphehlacwatsi, | |
| Medicinal: | Skin complaints & spleen |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
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