Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - PROTEACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Faurea sicalaba, sisefo, | |
| galpinii | |
| Firewood: | Fuelwood |
| Household: | Furniture |
| macnaughtonii | |
| Timber: | Heavy wood with beautiful grain. |
| Firewood: | Good firewood |
| rochetiana | |
| Household: | Furniture |
| Medicinal: | Root extract used for diarrhoea, ear infections & deworming. |
| saligna | |
| Timber: | Good general purpose timber & for poles. |
| Honey: | Important nectar source for bees. |
| Dyes: | Red dye from wood. Bark used for tannin |
| Firewood: | Fuelwood |
| Household: | Excellent wood for furniture. |
| Medicinal: | Used medicinally. Roots used for deworming. |
| 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 (African Protea) | |
| roupelliae (Silver Sugarbush) sicalaba lesimnyama, sicalabane, | |
| Medicinal: | Bark to facilitate conception & to treat urethral discharge. |
| subsp. hamiltonii | |
| subsp. roupelliae | |
| simplex (Silver Sugarbush) | |
| welwitschii subsp. welwitschii (Silver Sugarbush) | |
| Macadamia | |
| ternifolia * (Silver Sugarbush) | |
| Food: | Edible nuts. Probably in fact M.integrifolia not M.ternifolia |
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by botanical name - families:
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