Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Watsonia sidvwana, sidvwa, | |
| bella | |
| latifolia | |
| Medicinal: | Bulb medicinal. |
| Food: | Edible bulb |
| meriana | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal |
| pulchra | |
| Cultural: | Charm for good harvest. |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal bulb for diarrhoea |
| Food: | Edible bulb |
| watsonioides | |
| Medicinal: | Bulb medicinal. |
| Food: | Edible bulb |
| Warburgia | |
| salutaris (Pepperbark Tree) sibhaha, | |
| Medicinal: | Bark for colds, chest complaints, malaria & as a tonic. Antibiotic. |
| Wrightia | |
| natalensis (Saddle Pod) umbengende, umbengendze, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal. |
| Withania | |
| somnifera (Winter Cherry) buvimbha, | |
| Medicinal: | Roots for memory, infections, syphilis, & colds. Leaves for wounds. |
| Wahlenbergia | |
| androsacea | |
| Food: | Leaves used as spinach. |
| krebsii subsp. krebsii | |
| Food: | Vegetable |
| undulata | |
| Food: | Leaves used as spinach. |
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