Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Capsicum | |
| frutescens * | |
| Medicinal: | Fruit & seeds analagesic for fractures, dental abcesses & orchitis. |
| Food: | A spice plant. Capsicum peppers are used in curry powders. |
| Cestrum | |
| aurantiacum * | |
| Medicinal: | Can be poisonous to stock. Especially unripe fruit is poisonous. |
| laevigatum * | |
| Medicinal: | Can be poisonous to stock. Especially unripe fruit is poisonous. |
| Cycnium | |
| adonense | |
| Medicinal: | Remedy for snakebite |
| racemosum (Large Pink Ink Plant) uhlabahlangane, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for pain and in childbirth. |
| Ceratotheca | |
| sesamoides ludvonca, | |
| Food: | Vegetable with edible leaves. |
| triloba (Wild African Foxglove) ludvonca, ludvonqa, umdonqa, | |
| Medicinal: | Leaves for fever, stomach cramps & diarrhoea. Also an abortifacient. Roots used for sores. |
| Crabbea | |
| hirsuta (Prickle Head) ihlasi, umusa, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal |
| nana | |
| Food: | Listed as edible in the Transkei. |
| Crossandra | |
| fruticulosa | |
| Fodder: | Browsed by game |
| Conostomium | |
| natalense var. natalense (Wild Pentas) umbophe, ungcolosi, | |
| Cultural: | Love charms & to prevent lightning. |
| Cephalanthus | |
| natalensis (Tree Strawberry) mfomfo, umfomfo, umufofo, | |
| Medicinal: | Fruit for fevers. Bark & stem treat retardation of motor function |
| Food: | Edible fruit & leaves. Flower is also edible. |
| Catunaregam | |
| spinosa subsp. spinosa (Thorny Bone-apple) sikhwakhwane, sithole, | |
| Medicinal: | Fruits as emetic |
| Food: | Edible fruits. |
| Coddia | |
| rudis (Small Bone-apple) mahlamganisa, mahlanganisa, sikhwakhwane, silulwane, umhlabelo, | |
| Medicinal: | Apply as poultice to incisions away from a fracture or to treat fracture. |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
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