Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - ICACINACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Cassinopsis | |
| ilicifolia (Lemon Thorn) sihloko, | |
| Cultural: | Branches used for King's hut. |
| Medicinal: | Bark remedy for dysentary |
| Food: | Fruit reported to be edible. |
| tinifolia (False Lemon Thorn) inyandezulu, inyandzetulu, | |
| Apodytes | |
| dimidiata subsp. dimidiata (White Pear) umdzagane, umdzakane, | |
| Timber: | Poles for construction. Timber was used for wagons. |
| Household: | Wood for engraving, handicrafts, furniture & cattle yokes. |
| Medicinal: | Root as enema for intestinal parasites. Leaf for ear inflammation. |
| Food: | Boiled leaves can be eaten. |
| Pyrenacantha | |
| grandiflora (Firethorn) sehlulamanya, velabahleke, | |
| Cultural: | Roots and leaves make a good luck charm. Acquistion of metaphysical powers. |
| Medicinal: | Emetic for luck. Medicinal for herpes |
| kaurabassana velabahleke, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for herpes. |
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