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:

umkhanyakudze

   Acacia xanthophloea   (Fever Tree)

umkhashwane

   Drypetes arguta   (Water Ironplum)

umkhaya

   Acacia ataxacantha   (Flame Thorn)

   Acacia burkei   (Black Monkey Thorn)

   Acacia nigrescens   (Knobthorn)

umkhiwa

   Ficus spp.

umkhiwabovane

   Ficus sycomorus   (Sycamore Fig)

          subsp. gnaphalocarpa

          subsp. sycomorus

umkhiwane

   Ficus spp.

umkhobhohhobho

   Anthocleista grandiflora   (Forest Fever Tree)

umkhokha

   Mucuna coriacea   (Buffalo Bean)

          subsp. coriacea

          subsp. irritans

umkholikholi

   Afzelia quanzensis   (Pod Mahogany)

umkhomo

   Cyathea capensis   (Forest Tree Fern)

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