Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Tolpis | |
| capensis | |
| Food: | Eaten as spinach in Lesotho. |
| Taraxacum | |
| officinale * (Dandelion) umashwababa, | |
| Medicinal: | Leaves & root a bitter tonic for skin disorders. Diuretic & detoxicant. |
| Food: | Edible leaves & flowers for wine. Roots for coffee substitute. |
| Themeda | |
| triandra (Redgrass) likhenya, | |
| Fodder: | Natural pasture. |
| Household: | Thatching |
| Tristachya | |
| leucothrix | |
| Fodder: | Natural pasture for sheep. |
| Thamnocalamus | |
| Trachycalymma | |
| buchwaldii (Cartwheels) umdzayi, | |
| Food: | Edible leaves |
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