Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - MELIACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Toona | |
| ciliata * | |
| Timber: | Valuable wood with many uses. |
| Entandrophragma | |
| caudatum | |
| Timber: | Construction timber. |
| Dyes: | Bark is used for tanning & dyeing |
| Firewood: | Fuelwood |
| Household: | Furniture |
| Turraea | |
| floribunda (Honeysuckle Tree) inkunzana, inkunzane, umdlozana, | |
| Cultural: | Root & bark to induce trance when divining. Overdose is poisonous. |
| Medicinal: | Bark & root for rheumatism, dropsy & heart problems. |
| Food: | Pick edible fruit before birds get it. |
| obtusifolia (Small Honeysuckle Tree) amazulu, ikunzi embomvana, inkunzi, umhlatholana, | |
| Medicinal: | Crushed leaves used as enema. Roots and leaves for back pain. |
| Melia | |
| azedarach * (Persian Lilac) liputjutju, msilinga, umsilinga, | |
| Firewood: | Fuelwood. Poisonous berries. |
| Household: | Seeds for necklaces. Wood for bowls & spoons. Poisonous berries. |
| Medicinal: | Roots for anal prolapse. Berries poisonous, more so when ripe. |
| Ekebergia | |
| capensis (Cape Ash) inyamanti, inyamati, magwedla, manyatsi, matsatse, sindziyandziya, sndiya ndiya, umnyamatsi, | |
| Timber: | Construction timber described as light and handsome. |
| Dyes: | Bark used for tanning. |
| Cultural: | Bark and trunk used as charm to protect homesteads. |
| Fodder: | Used as fodder in times of drought. |
| Household: | Wood makes attractive furniture. |
| Medicinal: | Bark is emetic & for dysentary. Roots for headaches. Leaves for intestinal worms. |
| pterophylla (Rock Ash) magwedla, umnyamatsi, | |
| Medicinal: | Bark emetic and for dysentary. |
| Trichilia umkhuhlu, | |
| dregeana (Rock Ash) | |
| Household: | Dishes, headrests & furniture made from the pale pink wood. |
| Medicinal: | Bark, seeds & leaves widely used medicinally. |
| Food: | Seeds rich in fat and used in cooking. |
| emetica subsp. emetica (Natal Mahogany) mkhudlu, mkuhlu, umhubhulu, | |
| Timber: | Timber |
| Dyes: | A pink dye from the bark |
| Fodder: | Fodder |
| Firewood: | Firewood |
| Household: | Soap, cosmetics & furniture polish made from seed oil. Wood used for handicrafts, furniture, shelving and canoes. |
| Medicinal: | Bark yields an emetic purgative for lumbago, & haematuria. Seed oil taken for rheumatism. Fruit used for wounds. Root & bark for pregnancy oedema. Leaves in the bed induce sleep. |
| Food: | Edible fruit & buds. Seeds rich in fat and widely used in cooking (matfura butter). |
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