Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Protorhus | |
| longifolia (Red Beech ) imfuce, ndiyaza, umhlangothi, umhlangoti, umkhamamasi, | |
| Cultural: | Lightning conductor. |
| Household: | Furniture. Sticky gum used as adhesive. |
| Medicinal: | Bark gum as a depilatory. Bark for chest pains. |
| Food: | Boiled leaves are a famine food in Mozambique. |
| Putterlickia | |
| verrucosa (False Forest Spike-thorn) mhlatjwa, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal plant |
| Pterocelastrus sehlulamanye, | |
| echinatus (White Candlewood) incocodzi, lishasha, | |
| Medicinal: | Heavily used medicinally in Transkei. Roots &bark are analgesic. |
| rostratus | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal bark used with other substances for spinal problems. |
| tricuspidatus | |
| Dyes: | Bark is rich in tannic acid. Was once used for tanning purposes. |
| Firewood: | Fuelwood. Produces much heat. |
| Medicinal: | Bark used medicinally. |
| Pleurostylia | |
| capensis (Mountain Hard pear) umtfunyelelwa, | |
| Household: | Wagon construction |
| Pyrenacantha | |
| grandiflora (Firethorn) sehlulamanya, velabahleke, | |
| Cultural: | Roots and leaves make a good luck charm. Acquistion of metaphysical powers. |
| Medicinal: | Emetic for luck. Medicinal for herpes |
| kaurabassana velabahleke, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for herpes. |
| Pappea | |
| capensis (Jacket Plum) lilatsa, umkhunu, | |
| Timber: | Hard, tough useful wood. |
| Cultural: | Roots used by sangomas as good luck charm to increase business. |
| Fodder: | Leaves valuable for browsing by stock or game. |
| Firewood: | Firewood |
| Household: | Seeds yield a heavy oil. Used for soap and lubrication. |
| Medicinal: | Seeds, leaves, roots & bark for baldness & venereal disease. |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Can be used for jelly, alcoholic beverage & vinegar. |
| Phylica | |
| paniculata (Common Hard-leaf) umdidi, | |
| Pavonia | |
| burchellii (Dainty Pavonia) indola empofu, | |
| Passiflora liganandela, emagandela, | |
| edulis * | |
| Food: | Edible fruit turning from green to purple when ripe. |
| subpeltata * | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| Peddiea | |
| africana (Green Flower Tree) intfocwane, | |
| Household: | Bark fibre for ropes. |
| Medicinal: | Used in traditional medicine but is also poisonous. |
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