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Flora of Rwanda: Utilities: List of species vernacular names

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A
African allophylus (English)
African almond (English)
African beech (English)
African bittercress (English)
African buttercup (English)
African dogwood (English)
African false currant (English)
African foxtail (English)
African heart-vine (English)
African holly (English)
African indigo (English)
African protea (English)
African purslane (English)
Afrormosia (English)
Air potato (English)
Air yam (English)
Ambatch (English)
American cherry (English)
American cudweed (English)
American sicklepod (English)
Annual meadow grass (English)
Antelope grass (English)
Argentine fleabane (English)
Arrowroot (English)
Artillery plant (English)
Australian silky oak (English) (Cultivated species)
Avery fern (English)
Avocado pear (English)

B
Bachelor's button (English)
Balsawood tree (English)
Banana orchid (English)
Bark bush (English)
Basket grass (English)
Bastard stinkwood (English)
Be-still tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Bead-bean (English)
Beauty-of-the-night (English)
Bengal trumpet vine (English) (Cultivated species)
Big-leaf (English)
Bird's eye (English)
Bitter albizia (English)
Bitter almond (English)
Bitter yam (English)
Black cherry (English)
Black nightshade (English)
Black Sudan grass (English)
Black wattle (English)
Black-eyed susan (English)
Black-jack (English)
Blinks (English)
Blood lily (English)
Bloodberry (English)
Blue buffalo grass (English)
Blue cat's whiskers (English)
Blue disa (English)
Blue trumpet vine (English) (Cultivated species)
Blueweed (E) (English)
Boat lily (English) (Cultivated species)
Bottle gourd (English)
Bottle-brush grass (English)
Bottlebrush (English)
Bougainvillea (English) (Cultivated species)
Bracken (English)
Brazilian clover (English)
Brick-red ochna (English)
Brittlewood (English)
Broad-leaved beechwood (English)
Broad-leaved bristle-grass (English)
Broad-leaved pondweed (English)
Broad-leaved turpentine grass (English)
Broadleaf sorrel (English)
Broom-cluster fig (English)
Buffalo grass (English)
Buffelgrass (English)
Bug catcher (English)
Bulrush (English)
Bur bristle grass (English)
Bush yam (English)
Bushy bulbine (English)
Butter-berry (English)
Butterfly orchid tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Butternut pumpkin (English) (Cultivated species)
Butternut squash (English) (Cultivated species)

C
Calabash (English)
Calceolaria cassia (English) (Cultivated species)
Calthrop (English)
Camel-foot (English)
Cannabis (English)
Cape beech (English)
Cape fig (English)
Cape holly (English)
Cape leadwort (English) (Cultivated species)
Cape myrtle (English)
Cape smilax (English)
Cardinal guard (English) (Cultivated species)
Carpolobia (English)
Carrot seed grass (English)
Cats tail grass (English)
Catstail dropseed (English)
Catstail grass (English)
Caustic vine (English)
Chandelier plant (English)
Cheeky yam (English)
Cheesewood (English)
Cherry pie (English)
Chickweed (English)
Chickweed (English)
Chinese lantern (English)
Chinese mustard (English)
Chinese silk plant (English) (Cultivated species)
Chinese violet (English)
Chishambo (English)
Christmas berry (English)
Christmas flower (English)
Christmas flower (English) (Cultivated species)
Christmas lima bean (English)
Climbing fig (English) (Cultivated species)
Climbing nettle (English)
Climbing turkey-berry (English)
Clinging aneilema (English)
Clock vine (English) (Cultivated species)
Cluster-head protea (English)
Coffee senna (English)
Common allamanda (English) (Cultivated species)
Common broomrape (English)
Common celtis (English)
Common cluster fig (English)
Common crowfoot (English)
Common crown-berry (English)
Common fireball (English)
Common forest ochna (English)
Common purslane (English)
Common reed (English)
Common russet grass (English)
Common signal grass (English)
Common water-plantain (English)
Common wild elder (English)
Coontail (English)
Coral creeper (English)
Coral-vine (English)
Corn spurry (English)
Cottonwool grass (English)
Couch panicum (English)
Crawcraw vine (English)
Creeping bauhinia (English)
Creeping starbur (English)
Crown-of-gold tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Crystal-bark (English)
Cudweed (English)
Curry bush (English)

D
Dandelion (English)
Devil's eyelashes (English)
Devil's thorn (English)
Dogwood (English)
Duckweed (English)
Dwarf aspilia (English)

E
Eared vernonia (English)
Earth almond (English)
Eastern St Paul's-wort (English)
Edible galingale (English)
Elbow-leaf (English)
Elm (English)

F
Fairy dropseed (English)
False assegai (English)
False cape fig (English)
False daisy (English)
False dogwood (English)
False maidenhair (English)
False shiny-leaf (English)
False-fig (English)
Feathery love-grass (English)
Fibrous dropseed (English)
Finger millet (English)
Fire bush (English)
Fishbone cassia (English)
Flamboyant (English) (Cultivated species)
Flame lily (English)
Flat-crowned albizia (English)
Floating fig (English)
Florida beggar weed (English)
Footpath love grass (English)
Forest bead-string (English)
Forest big-leaf (English)
Forest dracaena (English)
Forest elder (English)
Forest false-currant (English)
Forest fever tree (English)
Forest newtonia (English)
Forest nuxia (English)
Forest sandpaper fig (English)
Forest sandpaper figtree (English)
Forest star (English)
Forest toad-tree (English)
Four o'clock flower (English)
Foxglove orchid (English)
French marigold (English)
Fringe tail (English)

G
Gallant soldier (English)
Garden bristle-grass (English)
Garden nasturtium (English)
Giant devil's fig (English)
Giant Maize Witchweed (English)
Giant potato (English)
Giant salvia (English)
Giant sensitive plant (English)
Giant spear grass (English)
Giant thatching grass (English)
Giant-leaved fig (English)
Globe amaranth (English)
Glossy flat-bean (English)
Golden bristle-grass (English)
Golden candle orchid (English)
Golden trumpet (English) (Cultivated species)
Granite garcinia (English)
Granite mangosteen (English)
Grass aloe (English)
Grassland tree fern (English)
Green leaf desmodium (English)
Grey-beard grass (English)
Grey-haired acacia (English)
Ground-nut (English) (Cultivated species)
Guava baby (English)
Guinea grass (English)
Gummy canthium (English)
Gunpowder plant (English)

H
Hairy caterpillar-pod (English)
Hairy heartleaf (English)
Hairy rock fig (English)
Hand grenade fruit (English)
Hare's ears (English)
Haroni fig (English)
Heart-leaved vine (English)
Helicopter grass (English)
Hemp (English)
Herbst's bloodleaf (English) (Cultivated species)
Hippo grass (English)
Hissing tree (English)
Honey-scented protea (English)
Hydrangea (English) (Cultivated species)

I
India rubber tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Indian cress (English)
Indian mustard (English)
Indian shot (English)
Inkberry (English)

J
Jimson weed (English)
Jumping-seed tree (English)
Jungle rice (English)

K
Kassod tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Kenya croton (English)
Kew weed (English)
Khaki burrweed (English)
Khaki bush (English)
Kikuyu grass (English)

L
Lace-leaf (English)
Lantana (English)
Large forest asparagus (English)
Large forest ipomoea (English)
Large plume eragrostis (English)
Large-flowered sebaea (English)
Large-fruited sycamore fig (English)
Large-leaved climbing dalbergia (English)
Large-leaved knobwood (English)
Large-leaved onionwood (English)
Large-seeded millet grass (English)
Lemon wood (English)
Leopard orchid (English)
Loofah (English)
Loquat (English) (Cultivated species)
Lucky bean creeper (English)
Lucky nut (English) (Cultivated species)
Lucky-bean tree (English)

M
Madagascar periwinkle (English)
Maidenhair fern (English)
Makoni tea bush (English)
Malabar spinach (English)
Marama bean (English)
Marijuana (English)
Marvel-of-Peru (English)
Mauritius thorn (English)
Mexican Bird of Paradise (English) (Cultivated species)
Mexican clover (English)
Mexican firespike (English) (Cultivated species)
Mexican fleabane (English)
Mexican lupin (English)
Mexican marigold (English)
Mexican poppy (English)
Mexican sunflower (English)
Mexican sunflower (English)
Milk rope (English)
Miniature bells (English)
Mistletoe cactus (English)
Mobola plum (English)
Monkey bread (English)
Monkey nut (English) (Cultivated species)
Monkey sugarcane (English)
Mopane orchid (English)
Moses in the cradle (English) (Cultivated species)
Mountain rock fig (English)
Msasa fern (English)
Mud plantain (English)
Mufindi coffee (English)
Mumvee (English)
Myrianthus (English)

N
Narrow heart love grass (English)
Narrow-plumed dropseed (English)
Natal cotton plant (English)
Natal fig (English)
Needle bush (English)
Nettle-leaved goosefoot (English)
New Zealand spinach (English) (Cultivated species)
Nile cabbage (English)
Northern ammocharis (English)
Northern large-leaved dragon-tree (English)
Northern stinkwood (English)
Nyanga flat-top (English)

O
Oat grass (English)
Orange bird-berry (English)
Orange-milk tree (English)
Orchid tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Ordeal tree (English)
Outeniqua yellowwood (English)
Oyster plant (English) (Cultivated species)

P
Pan dropseed (English)
Paper thorns (English)
Paperbark acacia (English)
Paperthorn (English)
Papyrus (English)
Parasol tree (English)
Peach (English) (Cultivated species)
Peacock Flower (English) (Cultivated species)
Peanut (English) (Cultivated species)
Peanut butter cassia (English)
Pearl acacia (English)
Pigeonwood (English)
Pigweed (English)
Pineapple-fruit tree (English)
Pinhole grass (English)
Pink bauhinia (English) (Cultivated species)
Pink camel's-foot (English) (Cultivated species)
Pink garden sorrel (English)
Pink-leaved blechnum (English)
Pink-vine (English)
Pith-tree (English)
Poison devil-tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Poison-pod albizia (English)
Porcupine-root (English)
Potato yam (English)
Powder-bark gardenia (English)
Praying-hands (English)
Prickly acanthus (English)
Prickly poppy (English)
Pride of Barbados (English) (Cultivated species)
Pride of the Cape (English) (Cultivated species)
Prostrate globe-amaranth (English)
Prostrate starbur (English)
Pumpkin (English) (Cultivated species)
Purple nutsedge (English)
Purple-leaved albizia (English)
Purple-wood dalbergia (English)

Q
Queensland silver wattle (English)

R
Rainbow grass (English)
Ramie (English) (Cultivated species)
Red bauhinia (English) (Cultivated species)
Red dropseed (English)
Red grass (English)
Red hook-berry (English)
Red ironwood (English)
Red oat grass (English)
Red stinkwood (English)
Red sunflower (English)
Red thorn (English)
Red-hot-poker tree (English)
Red-leaved rock fig (English)
Red-striped cucumber (English)
Redwing (English)
Reed grass (English)
Rescue grass (English)
Rhodes grass (English)
Rice grass (English)
Rigid hornwort (English)
Ritchiea (English)
River jasmine (English)
River tamarind (English)
Rock tannin-bush (English)
Rosy periwinkle (English)
Rough love grass (English)
Rough-barked flat-top (English)
Rough-leaved shepherds tree (English)
Rough-leaved white-stinkwood (English)
Royal fern (English)
Royal poinciana (English) (Cultivated species)
Rubber plant (English) (Cultivated species)
Rum cherry (English)
Rusty velvet protea (English)

S
Sand lily (English)
Sausage tree (English)
Scrambled egg (English)
Scrambling dutchman's pipe (English)
Shaggy soldier (English)
Shepherd's purse (English)
Shiny leaf (English)
Siamese cassia (English) (Cultivated species)
Siamese senna (English) (Cultivated species)
Sickle bush (English)
Silky-bark (English)
Silver oak (English) (Cultivated species)
Silver spike (English)
Silver spinach (English)
Simple-spined num-num (English)
Small buffalo grass (English)
Small myrsine (English)
Small-flowered canna (English)
Small-fruited teclea (English)
Small-fruited toad-tree (English)
Small-leaved yellow-wood (English)
Smilax (English)
Smooth senna (English)
Smooth-barked flat-crown (English)
Smooth-fruit zanha (English)
Snake lily (English)
Snake-root (English)
Soccerball fruit (English)
Sorrel (English)
Sorrel (English)
Sourplum (English)
Soursop (English) (Cultivated species)
Spear grass (English)
Spider-wisp (English)
Spiderweb chloris (English)
Spiky dropseed (English)
Spiky love-grass (English)
Spindle pod (English)
Spiny tree fern (English)
Splinter bean (English)
Sticky pod (English)
Sticky purple cleome (English)
Sticky purple mousewhiskers (English)
Sticky-leaved rubia (English)
Stinging nettle (English)
Stinking roger (English)
Strawberry (English) (Cultivated species)
Strombosia (English)
Sundew (English)
Sweet prickly-pear (English)
Sycomore fig (English)

T
Tall white squill (English)
Tamani berry (English)
Tamarind (English)
Tangle-flowered wild-medlar (English)
Tanglehead (English)
Tarvine (English)
Tea (English)
Thorny elm (English)
Three men in a boat (English) (Cultivated species)
Tickey-creeper (English) (Cultivated species)
Tiny Sweetvetch (English)
Tobacco tree (English)
Torpedo grass (English)
Transvaal sumach (English)
Tree entada (English)
Tree orchid (English)
Trellis-vine (English)
Tumbleweed (English)

U
Upright starbur (English)
Urnfig (English)

V
Vegetable sponge (English)
Veld fan (English)
Veld lupin (English)
Veld paspalum (English)
Velvet bean (English)
Velvet wild medlar (English)
Vumba grass (English)

W
Wandering jew (English)
Wandering jew (English)
Water grass (English)
Water hyacinth (English)
Water lettuce (English)
Water melon (English)
Watercress (English)
Waterlily (English)
Whipstick loquat (English)
Whipstick tree (English)
White buffalo grass (English)
White candles (English)
White pear (English)
White ribbon bush (English)
White stinkwood (English)
White thorn (English)
White witch-hazel (English)
Wild banana (English)
Wild crocus (English)
Wild custard-apple (English)
Wild date palm (English)
Wild gardenia (English)
Wild lucerne (English)
Wild pepper (English)
Wild pepper (English)
Wild sarsaparilla (English)
Wild Sorghum (English)
Wild squill (English)
Wild white plumbago (English)
Wild yam (English)
Willow beechwood (English)
Windball (English)
Winged bersama (English)
Winter cassia (English)
Winter-flowering senna (English)
Wire grass (English)
Witchweed (English)
Woolly caper-bush (English)
Woolly senna (English)
Wormseed (English)

Y
Yellow bauhinia (English)
Yellow bristle-grass (English)
Yellow commelina (English)
Yellow fire lily (English)
Yellow fleabane (English)
Yellow justicia (English)
Yellow nut-grass (English)
Yellow nutsedge (English)
Yellow oleander (English) (Cultivated species)
Yellow sorrel (English)
Yellow thatching-grass (English)
Yellow-spike thatching grass (English)

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