Swaziland's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
Usage Category: Food
| Asclepias eminens (Large Turret Flower) | |
| Edible leaves | |
| Asclepias expansa (Milk Weed) | |
| Edible leaves | |
| Asclepias fallax (Milk Weed) | |
| Edible leaves when well-cooked. | |
| Asclepias gibba var. gibba (Humped Turret Flower) | |
| Edible roots, leaves & flowers. | |
| Asclepias meliodora (Milk Weed) | |
| Edible leaves | |
| Asclepias meyeriana (Milk Weed) | |
| Edible leaves | |
| Asclepias schlechteri (Milk Weed) | |
| Edible leaves | |
| Asclepias stellifera (Common Meadow-star) | |
| Edible leaves | |
| Asclepias woodii (Milk Weed) liphoti, | |
| Fruits eaten in small quantities by Swazis. | |
| Asparagus aethiopicus (Wild Asparagus) | |
| Edible shoots | |
| Asparagus angusticladus (Wild Asparagus) | |
| Edible shoots | |
| Asparagus cooperi (Wild Asparagus) lubane, | |
| Edible shoots | |
| Asparagus plumosus (Wild Asparagus) | |
| Edible shoots | |
| Asparagus ramosissimus (Cascade Asparagus) ibutha, | |
| Edible roots | |
| Asparagus setaceus (Wild Asparagus) mahlabane, silevu sembuti, umutsi wekubeleka, | |
| Edible shoots | |
| Asparagus suaveolens (Bushveld Asparagus) | |
| Edible shoots. | |
| Aspidoglossum araneiferum | |
| Edible roots | |
| Aspidoglossum interruptum | |
| Edible roots. | |
| Asystasia gangetica (Creeping Foxglove) isihobo, | |
| Leaves eaten as spinach. | |
| Asystasia schimperi | |
| Edible leaves | |
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