Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Nerine | |
| angustifolia | |
| Cultural: | Protective charm against lightning & illness |
| Neobolusia | |
| tysonii | |
| Food: | Vegetable |
| Nymphaea | |
| lotus (White Waterlily) amahlolwane, | |
| nouchali (Blue Waterlily) amazibu, izeleba, izubu, | |
| Cultural: | Love charm & aphrodisiac |
| Medicinal: | Powdered roots for asthma, coughs & colds |
| Food: | Edible tubers also flowerheads and seeds. |
| var. caerulea | |
| var. zanzibariensis | |
| Newtonia | |
| hildebrandtii var. hildebrandtii (Lebombo Wattle) umfomoti, umtfombotsi, | |
| Timber: | Good, hard brown timber. |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal properties. |
| Neonotonia | |
| wightii | |
| Food: | Vegetable |
| Nuxia | |
| congesta (Brittle Wood) siphofane, umcumatsi, umcumcatsi, | |
| Timber: | Fence posts & building |
| Medicinal: | Bark is medicinal. |
| floribunda (Wild Elder) inkunzi, sitsambo, | |
| Medicinal: | Bark is medicinal & an antibiotic. Leaves also medicinal. |
| oppositifolia (Water Elder) sikhweza, | |
| Nicandra | |
| physalodes * (Apple of Peru) linyaka, linyoko, linyuko, | |
| Food: | Leaves boiled to eat with maize meal |
| Nicotiana | |
| glauca * | |
| Insecticidal: | Poisonous especially for ostriches. Dried flowers control cockroaches. |
| tabacum * | |
| Insecticidal: | Insecticidal & toxic to humans. |
| Nemesia | |
| denticulata | |
| Food: | Vegetable |
| fruticans | |
| Food: | Leaves can be used as spinach. |
| Nidorella | |
| auriculata inhlanga, | |
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