Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - PASSIFLORACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Adenia | |
| digitata (Baboon Poison) liphobobo, | |
| Medicinal: | Plant used to treat sores. |
| Food: | Edible leaves. Fruit & tubers very poisonous. |
| gummifera var. gummifera (Snake Climber) imfulo, imphinda, impinda, phindumshaye, | |
| Medicinal: | Trunk, roots and bark are medicinal as an emetic, for leprosy, for malaria, & for vomiting. Also a disinfectant. |
| Food: | Listed as a vegetable by some but the thick green stem is very poisonous. |
| hastata (Snake Climber) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit but similar to poisonous species so care needed. |
| var. glandulifera | |
| var. hastata | |
| Passiflora liganandela, emagandela, | |
| edulis * (Snake Climber) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit turning from green to purple when ripe. |
| subpeltata * (Snake Climber) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit. |
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