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:

umsinsi

   Erythrina lysistemon   (Common Coral Tree)

umsiphane

   Grewia spp.

umsiphane lomkhulu

   Grewia hexamita   (Giant Raisin)

   Grewia micrantha   (Golden Raisin)

umsobo

   Solanum mauritianum *   (Bugweed)

   Solanum nigrum *   (Black Nightshade)

   Solanum retroflexum   (Nightshade)

umsokosoko

   Ethulia conyzoides subsp. conyzoides *   (Blue Weed)

   Sesbania sesban   (River Bean)

          subsp. sesban var. nubica

          subsp. sesban var. sesban

umsongo

   Acalypha spp.

umsonti

   Podocarpus spp.

umsontsi

   Podocarpus spp.

umsungutane

   Eragrostis aethiopica   (Bush Asparagus)

umsutane

   Lippia javanica   (Lemon Bush)

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