Useful Plants of MalaŵiUniversity of Malawi, 1975 - 336 pages |
Contents
Herbarium | 7 |
Glossary of botanical terms | 13 |
Index of English and Malawian vernacular names | 269 |
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Useful Plants of Nyasaland: Edited by P. J. Greenway (Classic Reprint) Jessi Williamson No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
added African axillary banana bark beans beer boiled Brachystegia bran branches brown cassava Chichewa Chimanga cm long colour common commonly cooked as ndiwo cultivated cure cymes Dedza Dedza District dense diameter dried eaten raw evergreen finger millet flavour fleshy flour flowers small Found fruits are edible glabrous grain green grey groundnuts growing grown hairy herb infusion Karonga District Kasungu Kasungu District Lake-shore lanceolate leaf leaflets leaves alternate leaves are cooked Lilongwe Districts maize Malawi Mangochi medicine mixed much-branched Mulanje Mzimba Mzimba District native Nkhotakota District Nkhotakota Hills Nsanje nsima Ntcheu Ntcheu Districts Number oblong ovate pale panicles Papil perennial pinnate plant pods poisonous potashes pounded groundnuts racemes ripe roots rounded seeds shrub skins small tree soaked soft stalk stems sweet tall thelele timber tomatoes tubers Uapaca villages Wayao widespread Wild wood woodland yellow young Zomba