Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - PEDALIACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Sesamum | |
| alatum (Sesame) ludvonca-loludliwako, | |
| Food: | Edible seeds |
| capense (Sesame) | |
| Food: | Edible seeds |
| indicum * (Sesame) | |
| Medicinal: | Seeds are taken for dysentary & other stomach problems. |
| Food: | Edible seeds. An ancient crop. Oil used for margarine & cooking oil. |
| Ceratotheca | |
| sesamoides ludvonca, | |
| Food: | Vegetable with edible leaves. |
| triloba (Wild African Foxglove) ludvonca, ludvonqa, umdonqa, | |
| Medicinal: | Leaves for fever, stomach cramps & diarrhoea. Also an abortifacient. Roots used for sores. |
| Dicerocaryum | |
| senecioides subsp. senecioides (Wild African Foxglove) | |
| Household: | Produces slime used as soap substitute. |
| zanguebarium subsp. zanguebarium (Wild African Foxglove) | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal in Zimbabwe for measles. |
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