Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Tragia imbabatane, | |
| benthamii | |
| glabrata var. glabrata | |
| Fodder: | Browsed by game |
| meyeriana | |
| Fodder: | Browsed by game |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal to cause sexual excitement. |
| minor | |
| okanyua | |
| rupestris | |
| sonderi | |
| Tragiella | |
| natalensis | |
| Triumfetta | |
| pilosa luvenvane, | |
| Honey: | Honey |
| Household: | Stems for making twine. Used for washing hair. |
| var. effusa | |
| var. glabrescens forma tricuspidata | |
| var. pilosa | |
| var. tomentosa | |
| rhomboidea var. rhomboidea | |
| Food: | Vegetable |
| welwitschii | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal in Zimbabwe for diarrhoea. |
| var. hirsuta | |
| var. welwitschii | |
| Trimeria | |
| grandifolia subsp. grandifolia (Wild Mulberry) ludlebe lendlovu, mahlebe, sicandzamatje, | |
| Timber: | Building huts |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal |
| Tricliceras | |
| longipedunculatum var. longepedunculatum | |
| Food: | Vegetable |
| Terminalia mangwe, umhonono, sihhomuhhomu, | |
| phanerophlebia (Lebombo Cluster-leaf) mambonjwane, umangwe, | |
| Timber: | Timber |
| Firewood: | Firewood |
| Household: | Furniture |
| Medicinal: | Bark & roots are medicinal |
| sericea (Silver Cluster-leaf) emangwe, mangwelamhlophe, | |
| Timber: | General purpose timber and good fence posts. |
| Cultural: | Sticks of this tree should be stuck into floor of a shrine at planting time in homage to ancestors. Cutting down a tree may induce hailstorms. |
| Firewood: | Excellent fuel. |
| Household: | Rope and twine. Also furniture. |
| Medicinal: | Root decoction for diarrhoea, colic, stomach disorders & pneumonia. Bark medicinal & a posion antidote. Bilharzia. |
| Food: | Leaf used by Bushmen as supplementary food. Edible gum. |
| Tabernaemontana | |
| elegans (Toad Tree) mkhahlu, umfomamasi, umkhahlu, umkhalu, umkhamasi, | |
| Medicinal: | Root for pulmonary diseases. Coagulated latex is a styptic. Fruit used for STDs. Bark and fruit for vomit. |
| Food: | Edible but slimy fruit. |
| Tacazzea | |
| apiculata (Crawcraw Vine) isimondane, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal tonic |
| Trichodesma | |
| physaloides | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for wounds in Zimbabawe |
| zeylanicum | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal |
| Food: | Edible leaves and other parts. |
| Teucrium | |
| kraussii isihlungu, umnunu wenkhangala, | |
| kraussii | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal as a tonic and for snake bites.. Treat meat infected by anthrax. |
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