Swaziland's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
Usage Category: Timber
| Pterocarpus angolensis (Wild Teak/Kiaat) umvangati, umvangatsi, umvangazi, | |
| Timber for construction. Poles make live fences. | |
| Rapanea melanophloeos (Cape Beech) dzilidzili, gcolo, gcolokhulu, gcolokhulu, gcolokulu, ikhubakhula, ligcolo, ludzilidzile, luqolokulu, maphipha, | |
| Branches used for hut building. | |
| Rawsonia lucida (Forest Peach) inanga, sehlulamanye, | |
| Hard, heavy tough wood. | |
| Rhus leptodictya (Mountain Karee) | |
| Timber | |
| Rhus lucida forma lucida (Glossy Currant) inhlokoshiyane, | |
| Good fence posts | |
| Rhus montana (Drakensberg karee.) inhlokoshiyane, | |
| Wood used for hut building. | |
| Rhus pyroides (Common Wild Currant) | |
| Fence posts | |
| Rhus rehmanniana (Blunt-leaved Currant) | |
| Hard, red wood used for fence posts. | |
| Rothmannia capensis (Candlewood) intumbamadlozi, sikhokho, | |
| Poles for huts | |
| Schrebera alata (Wing-leaved Wooden Pear) sehlulamanya, sehlulamanye, | |
| Hard, heavy durable wood. | |
| Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra (Marula) emaganu, umganu, | |
| Timber | |
| Sclerocroton integerrimum (Jumping Seed Tree) umhlalampunsi, umhlalampunzi, | |
| Hard durable wood for hut building & general use. | |
| Senecio deltoideus (Groundsel) | |
| Good bee plant. | |
| Sideroxylon inerme subsp. inerme (White Milkwood) emaselitfole, emasi elitfole, masethole, umnweba, | |
| General purpose hard, strong timber. Resistant to water. | |
| Spirostachys africana (African Sandalwood) umtfombotsi, | |
| Hard, heavy, close-grained, durable wood is termite proof. | |
| Strychnos henningsii (Red Bitterberry) manono, mhlophe, silume lesi, umnonono, | |
| Makes useful fence posts & used as poles for hut building. | |
| Syzygium cordatum (Waterberry) tincozi, umcozi, umgcosi, umngcosi, | |
| Building timber water resistant. | |
| Tarchonanthus camphoratus (Wild Camphor Bush) ligcebe lelimhlophe, | |
| Durable termite resistant fence posts & for construction.. | |
| Terminalia phanerophlebia (Lebombo Cluster-leaf) mambonjwane, umangwe, | |
| Timber | |
| Terminalia sericea (Silver Cluster-leaf) emangwe, mangwelamhlophe, | |
| General purpose timber and good fence posts. | |
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