Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Enneapogon | |
| scoparius | |
| Fodder: | Fodder |
| Englerophytum umnumbela, | |
| magalismontanum (Transvaal Milkplum) manumbela, | |
| Timber: | Good building wood |
| Firewood: | Fuelwood |
| Medicinal: | Infusions of root & fruit for epilepsy. Powdered roots rubbed into forehead incision for headaches. |
| Food: | Edible fruit with high Vitamin C content. Good for wine, syrup & jelly. |
| natalense (Natal Milkplum) umtshongane, | |
| natalense (Natal Milkplum) emanumbela, manumbela, umtjongane, | |
| Timber: | Wood for fencing posts and hut building. |
| Household: | Wood for various handicrafts, furniture & milking buckets. |
| Food: | Edible fruit with high Vitamin C content. Good for wine, syrup & jelly. |
| Eucalyptus indlulamitsi, | |
| ficifolia * | |
| Timber: | Poles & timber |
| grandis * | |
| Timber: | Poles & timber |
| Elaeodendron | |
| croceum (Forest Saffron) ingultane, ingulutane, | |
| Timber: | Wood is hard, tough & useful. |
| Medicinal: | Bark is used as emetic. |
| transvaalense (Transvaal Saffronwood) ingwavuma, | |
| transvaalense (Transvaal Saffronwood) umgugudo, | |
| transvaalense (Transvaal Saffronwood) ingulutane, mcabango, mgungulutane, mkimgulutane, ngcotfo, umcabango, | |
| Dyes: | Bark used for tanning. |
| Household: | Fighting sticks. Wielded by dancers at Incwala ceremonies. Wood used for cattle troughs, spoons, headrests & tobacco pipes. |
| Medicinal: | Roots & bark for stomach pain, diarrhoea, rashes & as emetic. A tea made from it is a famous African medicine - ingwavuma. |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| Eriobotyra | |
| japonica * (Loquat) lokhwatsa, | |
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