Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - SOLANACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Nicandra | |
| physalodes * (Apple of Peru) linyaka, linyoko, linyuko, | |
| Food: | Leaves boiled to eat with maize meal |
| Withania | |
| somnifera (Winter Cherry) buvimbha, | |
| Medicinal: | Roots for memory, infections, syphilis, & colds. Leaves for wounds. |
| Physalis gcumugcumu, | |
| angulata * (Winter Cherry) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| peruviana * (Winter Cherry) | |
| Medicinal: | Leaves medicinal. Antidandruff. Prevents swellings from sprains. |
| Food: | Edible fruit. Delicious jam. Leaves and unripe fruits are poisonous. |
| viscosa * (Winter Cherry) | |
| Medicinal: | Root for dressing wounds and for headaches & stomach problems. |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| Capsicum | |
| frutescens * (Winter Cherry) | |
| Medicinal: | Fruit & seeds analagesic for fractures, dental abcesses & orchitis. |
| Food: | A spice plant. Capsicum peppers are used in curry powders. |
| Solanum intfuma, | |
| aculeastrum (Poison Apple) mtuma, | |
| Medicinal: | Poisonous seeds. Remedy for ringworm. Fruit for bladder complaints. Ash for rheumatism. |
| americanum * (Poison Apple) | |
| anguivi (Poison Apple) | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal seeds |
| capense (Poison Apple) | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal seeds |
| giftbergense (Poison Apple) | |
| giganteum (Poison Apple) | |
| Medicinal: | Leaves and fruit juice used as a healing ointment |
| Food: | Edible seeds & fruits. |
| lichtensteinii (Poison Apple) | |
| Medicinal: | Seeds for ringworm, toothache & sore throat. Green fruits poisonous. |
| macrocarpon (Poison Apple) | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal seeds for sandworm & ringworm |
| Food: | Edible fruit & leaves. |
| mauritianum * (Bug Weed) gwayane, intfumana, isibongabonga, sibongabonga, umsobo, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal seeds. Fruits are poisonous but not to birds who thus spread the seeds widely. |
| melongena * (Bug Weed) | |
| Food: | Edible fruit |
| nigrum * (Black nightshade) msobo, umsobo, | |
| Dyes: | Dye |
| Medicinal: | Herb. Eye inflammation, skin disorders, ulcers, eczema. |
| Food: | Edible fruit but only when ripe. Green fruits poisonous. Edible leaves. |
| panduriforme (Yellow Bitter-apple) intfuma lencane, | |
| Medicinal: | Seeds for skin infections, toothache & haemorrhoids. |
| retroflexum (Nightshade) intfumana, umsobo, | |
| Medicinal: | Abdominal upsets, wounds, ringworm & lumbago |
| Food: | Edible fruit when ripe but poisonous when green. Edible leaves. |
| seaforthianum * (Potato Creeper) salakuhle, | |
| sisymbrifolium * (Potato Creeper) | |
| Medicinal: | Green fruits are poisonous. |
| terminale subsp. terminale (Potato Creeper) | |
| tomentosum var. coccineum (Potato Creeper) | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal seeds |
| tuberosum * (Potato) emazambane, | |
| Lycopersicon | |
| esculentum var. cerasiforme * (Potato) | |
| Medicinal: | An antioxidant |
| Food: | Edible fruit. But plant has toxic properties. |
| Datura | |
| ferox * (Potato) | |
| Firewood: | Fuelwood |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for swellings. Leaves for psychosis. Poisonous. |
| stramonium * (Common Thorn Apple) lijowe, lijoye, liljowe, umkhuna, | |
| Dyes: | Blue-gree dye from leaves. |
| Cultural: | Diviner's aid & asthma & headaches. Leaves smoked in Caribbean. |
| Medicinal: | Seeds & leaves to induce halucinations & delusions. Poisonous. |
| Cestrum | |
| aurantiacum * (Common Thorn Apple) | |
| Medicinal: | Can be poisonous to stock. Especially unripe fruit is poisonous. |
| laevigatum * (Common Thorn Apple) | |
| Medicinal: | Can be poisonous to stock. Especially unripe fruit is poisonous. |
| Nicotiana | |
| glauca * (Common Thorn Apple) | |
| Insecticidal: | Poisonous especially for ostriches. Dried flowers control cockroaches. |
| tabacum * (Common Thorn Apple) | |
| Insecticidal: | Insecticidal & toxic to humans. |
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