Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - OLEACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Schrebera | |
| alata (Wing-leaved Wooden Pear) sehlulamanya, sehlulamanye, | |
| Timber: | Hard, heavy durable wood. |
| Firewood: | Fuelwood |
| Chionanthus | |
| foveolatus (Bastard Ironwood) isandletshe, sandletje, | |
| subsp. foveolatus | |
| subsp. major | |
| peglerae (Large-leaved Ironwood) isizimane esimhlophe, ithintane elimhlophe, | |
| Olea umncuma, | |
| capensis subsp. macrocarpa (Black Ironwood) isitimane, | |
| capensis (Rock Ironwood) sinhletje, sitimane, | |
| Timber: | Wood while difficult to work is widely used. |
| Fodder: | Forage |
| Firewood: | Firewood |
| Household: | Sticks. Can produce beautiful furniture. |
| Medicinal: | Bark used to treat indigestion. |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Subsp. macrocarpa can bear up to 10,000 fruits. |
| subsp. capensis | |
| subsp. enervis | |
| subsp. macrocarpa | |
| europaea subsp. africana (African Olive) umnquma, | |
| woodiana (Forest Olive) manyatsi, | |
| Timber: | Hard "steel-like" wood. |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| Jasminum | |
| fluminense (Forest Olive) | |
| Household: | Branches used to clean teeth |
| multipartitum (Starry Wild Jasmine) ihlolenkosazane, imfohlafohlane, isandia senkosikazi, | |
| Household: | Fragrant bath & pot-pourri. |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal emetic. |
| Food: | Herbal tea. Fruits eaten as a "famine food". |
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