Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - VITACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Rhoicissus sinwati, | |
| digitata | |
| Household: | Pumpkin spray |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Poisonous roots. |
| revoilii (Bushveld Grape) umbovu, | |
| Household: | Pumpkin spray |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Stems have thin, acid juice used in times of drought. |
| rhomboidea (Bastard Forest Grape) umbovu, | |
| Household: | Basketry |
| Food: | Edible fruit when mature. Good for jelly and wine. |
| tomentosa (Common Forest Grape) isinwati, lisinwati, umbovu, | |
| Household: | Split branches used as rope and for baskets. |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Excellent jams & jellies |
| tridentata (Bushman's Grape) imbozisa, ligolo-lenkhonyane, mboziso, mnamaftsela, mnamatsela, umguci, umguco, | |
| Cultural: | Plant used as charm when moving. |
| Household: | Pumpkin spray |
| Food: | Edible fruit but sour. |
| Medicinal: | Roots for menstrual pains, childbirth, impotence, barrenness, syphilis, bladder & kidney complaints. Whole plant for chest complaints. Leaves or roots for otitis. |
| subsp. cuneifolia | |
| subsp. tridentata | |
| Cissus | |
| quadrangularis (Climbing Cactus) lidzambiso, sihlonhlwane, umhlafutfu, umhlahlamphetfu, umklalafutfu, | |
| Medicinal: | Stems & leaves for sores, wounds & for gonorrhoea. Roots used for sprians. Also used for veterinary purposes. |
| Food: | Seeds used for cooking oil. |
| rotundifolia (Bushveld Grape) lidlebendlovu, nyokane, umtsebulo, | |
| Household: | Roots are used a cleanser. |
| Medicinal: | Roots & leaves are medicinal |
| Cyphostemma | |
| cirrhosum (Droog-my-keel) mopho, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal. |
| subsp. cirrhosum | |
| subsp. transvaalense | |
| schlechteri (Droog-my-keel) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Three or four leave unpleasant taste. Maybe poisonous. |
| segmentatum (Droog-my-keel) | |
| Food: | Juicy, sweet fruit but three or four leave unpleasant taste. |
| simulans (Droog-my-keel) | |
| Food: | Vegetable |
| subciliatum inkhokhabovu, likhambiletilondza, | |
| Medicinal: | Leaves for peptic ulcers. Bulb for cancer and abscess. |
| woodii (Hairy Grape Bush) inkhonyane, | |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by botanical name - families:
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