Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - OXALIDACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Oxalis simunyamunyane, | |
| corniculata * | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for snakebite. |
| Food: | Edible leaves & flowers |
| davyana (Wood Sorrel) simunyane, | |
| Food: | Edible leaves |
| latifolia * (Wood Sorrel) | |
| Honey: | Flowers visited by honey-bees. |
| obliquifolia (Wood Sorrel) | |
| Honey: | Honey plant. |
| Food: | Edible leaves |
| purpurea (Wood Sorrel) | |
| Food: | Leaves are used to flavour and peeled tubers are edible |
| smithiana (Wood Sorrel) | |
| Medicinal: | Tapeworm remedy |
| Food: | Edible leaves & corms |
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