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:

sikholonjwane

   Ximenia americana   (Blue Sourplum)

          var. americana

          var. microphylla

sikhonkhwane

   Dracaena aletriformis   (Dracaena)

sikhundla

   Dioscorea cotinifolia   (Wild Yam)

   Dioscorea sylvatica   (Elephant's Foot)

          var. brevipes

          var. sylvatica

sikhwa

   Tulbaghia ludwigiana   (Scented Wild Garlic)

sikhwakhwane

   Catunaregam spinosa subsp. spinosa   (Thorny Bone-apple)

   Coddia rudis   (Small Bone-apple)

   Vangueria parvifolia   (Small Velvet Leaf.)

sikhweza

   Nuxia oppositifolia   (Water Elder)

siklalu

   Kiggelaria africana   (Wild Peach)

siklonklwana

   Euphorbia knuthii   (Euphorbia)

sikoba

   Rothmannia globosa   (September Bells)

sikwenga

   Sansevieria hyacinthoides   (Mother-in-law's-tongue)

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