Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Podocarpus umsonti, umsontsi, | |
| falcatus | |
| Timber: | Timber especially for boats. |
| Household: | Beautiful yellowood furniture. |
| Medicinal: | Used in traditional medicine |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| henkelii | |
| Timber: | Fine timber with wide range of uses |
| Household: | Beautiful yellowood furniture. |
| latifolius | |
| Timber: | Fine timber which seasons well. Used especially for flooring. |
| Household: | Beautiful yellowood furniture. |
| Pinus | |
| elliottii * | |
| Timber: | Poles & pulp |
| patula var. patula * (Mexican Yellow Pine) sipheshula, siphesikhulu, | |
| Timber: | Poles & pulp |
| Potamogeton | |
| crispus (Wavy-leaved Pondweed) isaswane, | |
| Pycreus | |
| nitidus ikhwane, intsekane, | |
| Household: | Rhizomes for necklaces and as perfume. |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for chest colds. |
| polystachyos var. polystachyos inconcodwane, incondvwane, | |
| Phoenix | |
| reclinata (Wild Date Palm) isundu, lilala, lisundvu, lusundvu, | |
| Household: | Leaves for basketry, weaving & sunhats. Stems for brooms & brushes. |
| Food: | Edible fruit & leaves. Sap for beer/cider, usually drunk in the forest. |
| Polystachya emabela njongosi, | |
| ottoniana iphamba lehlathi, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for diarrhoea. Seeds as snuff. |
| pubescens | |
| Cultural: | Protective & love charm. |
| transvaalensis iphamba , | |
| Cultural: | Protective love charm |
| Piper | |
| capense var. capense (Wild Pepper) pelepele, phelephele, | |
| Food: | Spicy berries.. Was main source of pepper - now from Piper nigrum. |
| Pouzolzia | |
| mixta (Soap Nettle) udekane, | |
| Household: | Bark used for fibre for rope or string. Crushed leaves for a soap. |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal to dilate birth canal in Zimbabwe. |
| Protea sidlungu, | |
| caffra (Common Sugarbush) indlunge, sicalabane, | |
| Dyes: | Bark for tanning leather. |
| Firewood: | Excellent firewood |
| Medicinal: | Bark used in traditional medicine for bleeding ulcers. Roots & flowers used for deworming and for psychois. |
| subsp. caffra | |
| subsp. falcata | |
| comptonii (Mountain Protea) sicalabane, | |
| gaguedi (African Protea) sicalabane, | |
| parvula | |
| roupelliae (Silver Sugarbush) sicalaba lesimnyama, sicalabane, | |
| Medicinal: | Bark to facilitate conception & to treat urethral discharge. |
| subsp. hamiltonii | |
| subsp. roupelliae | |
| simplex | |
| welwitschii subsp. welwitschii | |
| Pedistylis | |
| galpinii (Birdlime) inovu, | |
| Cultural: | Trapping birds. Bird lime. |
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