Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - TILIACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Corchorus bubati, ligusha, luklolo, | |
| asplenifolius | |
| Medicinal: | With other plants as an aphrodisiac and for impotence. |
| Food: | Edible leaves |
| confusus | |
| Food: | Edible fruit & leaves |
| schimperi | |
| Food: | Edible leaves |
| tridens * | |
| Food: | Edible leaves |
| trilocularis * | |
| Food: | Edible leaves |
| Grewia umsiphane, | |
| bicolor | |
| Household: | Inner bark provides fibre for ropes and baskets. Wood for axe handles. |
| Medicinal: | Roots as emetic & for chest complaints. |
| Food: | Fruit is edible when ripe or if dried. |
| caffra (Climbing Raisin) likholo, liklolo, lukholo, lukhwolo, uklolo, wkhuolo, | |
| Household: | Stems for making traps for monkeys & crocodiles. |
| Food: | Edible leaves & fruit |
| flava (Velvet Brandybush) liklolo, | |
| Cultural: | Wooden pegs ward off lightning. |
| Household: | Bark for fibre and branchlets for bowls, baskets & toothbrushes |
| Medicinal: | Roots as emetic |
| Food: | Edible fruit used for porridge and fermented for brandy. |
| flavescens (Rough-leaved raisin) labhojane, lambonjane, ligusha-lemahlatsi, likloko, liklolo, | |
| Timber: | Hard useful wood. |
| Fodder: | Fodder & forage. Leaves browsed by game and livestock. |
| Medicinal: | Multiple medicinal uses. Impotence, sterility, wounds. |
| Food: | Edible fruit & leaves |
| hexamita (Giant Raisin) umsiphane lomkhulu, | |
| Household: | Crafts. Sticks, bows & arrows. |
| Medicinal: | Roots as emetic, for vomiting & as a male aphrodisiac. |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Also for alcholic beverage. The largest Grewia fruit. |
| hornbyi (Giant Raisin) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| micrantha (Golden Raisin) umsiphane lomkhulu, | |
| Medicinal: | Roots as emetic |
| Food: | Edible pleasant fruit. |
| monticola (Silver Raisin) umsipune, | |
| Household: | Wood used for walking sticks and assegai handles. |
| Medicinal: | Roots as emetic. |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| occidentalis (Cross-berry Raisin) likloko, liklolo, | |
| Fodder: | Fodder & forage |
| Household: | Wood used for walking sticks and assegai handles. |
| Medicinal: | Multiple medicinal uses. Impotence, sterility, wounds. |
| Food: | Edible fruit & leaves. |
| var. litoralis | |
| var. occidentalis | |
| olukondae (Rough-leaved raisin) liklolo, | |
| Food: | Edible fruit & leaves. |
| subspathulata (Rough-leaved raisin) | |
| Medicinal: | Roots as emetic |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| villosa var. villosa (Mallow Raisin) labhojane, | |
| Medicinal: | Roots as emetic. |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| Triumfetta | |
| pilosa luvenvane, | |
| Honey: | Honey |
| Household: | Stems for making twine. Used for washing hair. |
| var. effusa | |
| var. glabrescens forma tricuspidata | |
| var. pilosa | |
| var. tomentosa | |
| rhomboidea var. rhomboidea | |
| Food: | Vegetable |
| welwitschii | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal in Zimbabwe for diarrhoea. |
| var. hirsuta | |
| var. welwitschii | |
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by botanical name - families:
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