Fauna - Vertebrates

Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses

Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005

SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by siSwati name:

ligwava

   Psidium guajava *   (Common Guava)

lihabe

   Lactuca inermis   (Wild lettuce)

lihala

   Aloe maculata   (Common Soap Aloe)

   Aloe vanbalenii   (Van Balen's Aloe)

lihlala

   Strychnos madagascariensis   (Black Monkey Orange)

lihlunguhlungu

   Vernonia colorata subsp. colorata   (Bitter Leaf)

   Vernonia crataegifolia  

   Vernonia tigna   (Mountain Vernonia)

lihwabahwaba

   Vernonia myriantha   (Poison Tree Vernonia)

lijobe

   Erythroxylum delagoense   (Small Leaved Coca Tree)

   Eugenia natalitia   (Natal Myrtle)

lijoti

lijoye

   Crinum macowanii   (River Lily)

   Datura stramonium *   (Common Thorn Apple)

   Eugenia natalitia   (Natal Myrtle)

   Senna occidentalis *   (Wild Coffee)

likhakhasi

   Berkheya spp.

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