Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - ANACARDIACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Mangifera | |
| indica * (Mango) mangololo, mangoza, | |
| Medicinal: | Plant used for abdominal pains |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Used as flavoring spice in curries & chutneys. |
| Sclerocarya | |
| birrea subsp. caffra (Marula) emaganu, umganu, | |
| Timber: | Timber |
| Dyes: | Dye is obtained from bark. |
| Cultural: | Bark used to determine sex of unborn & to remove bad luck. |
| Fodder: | Fodder & forage. Leaves browsed by animals & elephants strip bark. |
| Firewood: | Firewood |
| Household: | Wood does not crack easily. Used for handicrafts & household Items |
| Medicinal: | Bark for dysentary, diarrhoea, malaria. |
| Food: | Edible fruit, nuts & leaves. Important source for beer & liquors. |
| Harpephyllum | |
| caffrum (Wild Plum) umgonyogonyo, umgwenya, umgwenyobovu, | |
| Timber: | General purpose timber |
| Dyes: | Dye |
| Firewood: | Wood used for fuel. |
| Household: | Wood used for furniture but not very durable |
| Medicinal: | Bark for cosmetics, as blood purifer, for skin problems & chest ailments. Roots & bark for menstrual problems. |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Good for jams & jellies. |
| Lannea | |
| antiscorbutica (Pink-haired Lannea) bulibati, intfokolovu, intokolovu, sikhanganyane, singanganyane, umganunkhomo, | |
| Cultural: | Roots used to protect hometead from witchcraft. |
| Food: | Edible fruit, but with little flesh. |
| discolor (Wild Grape) isiganganyane, sigaganjane, siganganyane, tintfoholoon, tintokolovu, umntfokolovo, umntfokolovu, umtfukolovo, | |
| Timber: | Poles and posts |
| Firewood: | Fuel wood |
| Household: | Stripped bark for twine. Wood used for utensils. Children's pop-guns. Soft wood pounded into plates & spoons. |
| Medicinal: | Bark & roots used for childrens ailments, convulsions, dizziness, bladder & bowel ailments and for vomiting and female sterililty Roots also for diarrhoea. |
| Food: | Edible black fruit. |
| edulis var. edulis (Wild Grape) sigaganjane, | |
| schweinfurthii var. stuhlmannii (False Marula) umgabunkhomo, | |
| Timber: | General purpose timber. |
| Dyes: | Bark for tanning & a purple dye. |
| Cultural: | "Tree of forgetfulness". Harbours benevolent spirit to protect & heal. |
| Medicinal: | Roots as sedative snuff. Paste from leaves as a dressing for sores |
| Food: | Edible purple fruit. |
| Protorhus | |
| longifolia (Red Beech ) imfuce, ndiyaza, umhlangothi, umhlangoti, umkhamamasi, | |
| Cultural: | Lightning conductor. |
| Household: | Furniture. Sticky gum used as adhesive. |
| Medicinal: | Bark gum as a depilatory. Bark for chest pains. |
| Food: | Boiled leaves are a famine food in Mozambique. |
| Schinus | |
| terebinthifolius * (Red Beech ) | |
| Honey: | Source of nectar for honeybees. |
| Food: | Berries produce red peppercorns. Poisonous in quantity. |
| Ozoroa imfuce, | |
| engleri (White Resin Tree) imfuce-lemhlophe, | |
| Household: | Necklaces. Ground fruit used as hair dressing. |
| Medicinal: | Leaves, bark & roots medicinal. Bark for steaming & inhaling. |
| Food: | Edible fruits. |
| insignis subsp. reticulata (Resin Tree) sifeze, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal |
| Food: | Fruits eaten in Malawi and Zimbabwe. |
| paniculosa var. paniculosa (Resin Tree) | |
| Household: | Necklaces. Fruit used as apron dye by Zulus. |
| sphaerocarpa (Bastard Currant Tree) imfuce-lemnyama, | |
| Household: | Necklaces |
| Medicinal: | Leaves, roots & bark are medicinal. Bark for high blood pressure. |
| Food: | Edible fruits. |
| Rhus inhlangushane, | |
| chirindensis (Red Currant) inhlangishane-lenkhulu, | |
| Household: | Wood has red sheen and is used for furniture |
| Medicinal: | Sap remedies heart complaints. Roots are medicinal. |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| dentata (Red Currant) | |
| Firewood: | Firewood. |
| Food: | Edible fruit but astringent. |
| discolor (Red Currant) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| grandidens (Red Currant) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| harveyi (Red Currant) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| leptodictya (Red Currant) | |
| Timber: | Timber |
| Firewood: | Firewood |
| Medicinal: | Branch lotion & smoke from burning used for eye complaints |
| Food: | Edible fruit from which an intoxicating liquor can be made. |
| lucida forma lucida (Glossy Currant) inhlokoshiyane, | |
| Timber: | Good fence posts |
| Dyes: | Bark from roots & branches used for tanning |
| magalismontana subsp. trifoliolata (Glossy Currant) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| montana (Drakensberg karee.) inhlokoshiyane, | |
| Timber: | Wood used for hut building. |
| natalensis var. natalensis (Drakensberg karee.) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| nebulosa forma nebulosa (Drakensberg karee.) | |
| Soil Conservation: | Stabilises sand dunes. |
| pentheri (Common Crow-berry) sitsatsatsa, | |
| Firewood: | Branches used for firewood. |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| pondoensis (Common Crow-berry) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| pyroides (Common Crow-berry) | |
| Timber: | Fence posts |
| Firewood: | Firewood |
| Household: | Tool handles |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Tea from dried fruit |
| var. dinteri | |
| var. gracilis | |
| var. integrifolia | |
| var. pyroides | |
| rehmanniana (Common Crow-berry) | |
| Timber: | Hard, red wood used for fence posts. |
| var. glabrata | |
| var. rehmanniana | |
| rigida (Common Crow-berry) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| var. margaretae | |
| var. rigida | |
| rogersii (Common Crow-berry) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| transvaalensis (Common Crow-berry) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| tumulicola (Common Crow-berry) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
| var. meeuseana forma meeuseana | |
| var. tumulicola | |
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