Flora of Democratic Republic of the Congo: Utilities: List of species vernacular names

Click on a letter below to take you to the first species whose name begins with that letter.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
African allophylus (English)
African bittercress (English)
African breadfruit (English)
African buttercup (English)
African dogwood (English)
African ebony (English)
African false currant (English)
African holly (English)
African horned cucumber (English)
African indigo (English)
African protea (English)
African purslane (English)
Afrormosia (English)
Aidia (English)
Air potato (English)
Air yam (English)
Ambatch (English)
American sicklepod (English)
Ana-tree (English)
Annatto (English)
Apple-leaf (English)
Apple-ring acacia (English)
Apricot vine (English)
Argentine fleabane (English)
Arnotto (English)
Arrowroot (English)
Artillery plant (English)
Ashanti blood (English)
Avocado pear (English)

B
Baboons' breakfast (English)
Bachelor's button (English)
Balsawood tree (English)
Banana orchid (English)
Bark bush (English)
Bastard stinkwood (English)
Batoka jackal-berry (English)
Batoka plum (English)
Bead-bean (English)
Beauty-of-the-night (English)
Big num-num (English)
Big-leaf (English)
Bitter albizia (English)
Bitter yam (English)
Bitter-tea vernonia (English)
Black bitterberry (English)
Black plum (English)
Black-eyed susan (English)
Black-jack (English)
Blinks (English)
Bloodberry (English)
Bloodwood (English)
Blue bitter-berry (English)
Blue bush-cherry (English)
Blue cat's whiskers (English)
Blue disa (English)
Blue sourplum (English)
Blue sweetberry (English)
Blueweed (E) (English)
Borassus palm (English)
Bottle gourd (English)
Bougainvillea (English) (Cultivated species)
Brazilian clover (English)
Brick-red ochna (English)
Brittlewood (English)
Broad-leaved beechwood (English)
Broad-leaved shepherds tree (English)
Broadleaf sorrel (English)
Broom-cluster fig (English)
Buffalo grass (English)
Buffalo-thorn (English)
Bug catcher (English)
Bushman's poison (English)
Bushveld peacock-berry (English)
Butter-berry (English)
Butternut pumpkin (English) (Cultivated species)
Butternut squash (English) (Cultivated species)
Button mangrove (English)
Buttonwood (English)

C
Calabash (English)
Calceolaria cassia (English) (Cultivated species)
Calthrop (English)
Camel-foot (English)
Canary pea (English)
Candlestick cassia (English)
Cannabis (English)
Cape fig (English)
Cape holly (English)
Cape leadwort (English) (Cultivated species)
Cape myrtle (English)
Carpolobia (English)
Carrot-tree (English)
Caterpillar bush (English)
Caustic vine (English)
Ceará rubber (English)
Cheeky yam (English)
Cheesewood (English)
Cherry pie (English)
Chickweed (English)
Chinese lantern (English)
Chinese mustard (English)
Chinese violet (English)
Chinese water chestnut (English)
Chishambo (English)
Christmas berry (English)
Christmas flower (English)
Climbing bamboo (English)
Climbing bitterberry (English)
Climbing nettle (English)
Climbing turkey-berry (English)
Climbing wild apricot (English)
Clinging aneilema (English)
Coffee senna (English)
Common allamanda (English)
Common broomrape (English)
Common celtis (English)
Common cluster fig (English)
Common crown-berry (English)
Common dorstenia (English)
Common forest ochna (English)
Common pheasant-berry (English)
Common purslane (English)
Common reed (English)
Common wild elder (English)
Confetti tree (English)
Coontail (English)
Coral creeper (English)
Coral-vine (English)
Corky monkey-orange (English)
Corn spurry (English)
Cowpea witchweed (English)
Cranberry hibiscus (English)
Crawcraw vine (English)
Creeping bauhinia (English)
Creeping starbur (English)
Crimson mistletoe (English)
Crown-of-gold tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Crystal-bark (English)
Cudweed (English)
Curled caterpillar-pod (English)
Curry bush (English)

D
Devil's eyelashes (English)
Devil's thorn (English)
Donkey-berry (English)
Duiker-berry (English)
Dwarf aspilia (English)

E
Earth almond (English)
Eastern St Paul's-wort (English)
Edging blue lobelia (English)
Edible galingale (English)
Elbow-leaf (English)
Elegant witchweed (English)
Elephant vine (English)
Elm (English)
Empress candle plant (English)

F
False assegai (English)
False balsa (English)
False cape fig (English)
False daisy (English)
False dogwood (English)
False maidenhair (English)
False shiny-leaf (English)
False wild medlar (English)
False-fig (English)
Feretia (English)
Fever-pod (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)
Forest big-leaf (English)
Forest bitterberry (English)
Forest elder (English)
Forest fever tree (English)
Forest fig (English)
Forest figtree (English)
Forest ironplum (English)
Forest newtonia (English)
Forest nuxia (English)
Forest ordeal tree (English)
Forest peach (English)
Forest star (English)
Forest toad-tree (English)
Four o'clock flower (English)
Four-leaved bushwillow (English)
Four-winged pteleopsis (English)
Four-winged stink-bushwillow (English)
Foxglove orchid (English)

G
Gallant soldier (English)
Garden nasturtium (English)
Giant Maize Witchweed (English)
Giant potato (English)
Giant reed (English)
Giant salvia (English)
Giant sensitive plant (English)
Glossy flat-bean (English)
Golden bean tree (English)
Golden bell-bean (English)
Golden candle orchid (English)
Golden trumpet (English)
Governor's plum (English)
Granite garcinia (English)
Granite mangosteen (English)
Grape strychnos (English)
Green leaf desmodium (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)
Hemp (English)
Herbst's bloodleaf (English) (Cultivated species)
Hissing tree (English)
Horn-pod tree (English)
Horse-radish tree (English)
Horsewood (English)

I
Indian cress (English)
Indian mustard (English)
Indian shot (English)
Inkberry (English)
Iroko (English)

J
Jackal-berry (English)
Jasmine-tree (English)
Jimson weed (English)
Jungle rice (English)

K
Kalahari cluster-leaf (English)
Kalahari green-bubble (English)
Kalahari podberry (English)
Kapok tree (English)
Kassod tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Kew weed (English)
Khaki burrweed (English)
Khaki bush (English)
Knobby bridelia (English)
Kooboo-berry (English)
Kudu-berry (English)
Kundanyoka knobwood (English)

L
Lace-leaf (English)
Lantana (English)
Large forest ipomoea (English)
Large pink gardenia (English)
Large red-heart (English)
Large white bauhinia (English)
Large-flowered sebaea (English)
Large-flowered spike-thorn (English)
Large-fruited bushwillow (English)
Large-fruited sycamore fig (English)
Large-leaved acacia (English)
Large-leaved climbing dalbergia (English)
Large-leaved dalbergia (English)
Large-leaved jackal-berry (English)
Large-leaved mousewhiskers (English)
Large-leaved rhus (English)
Large-leaved star-chestnut (English)
Large-leaved terminalia (English)
Lemon wood (English)
Lemon Yellow Rosemallow (English)
Leopard orchid (English)
Live-long (English)
Long-tail cassia (English)
Loofah (English)
Lowveld albizia (English)
Lowveld fig (English)
Lowveld tree vernonia (English)
Lucky bean creeper (English)
Lucky-bean tree (English)

M
Madagascar periwinkle (English)
Maggot killer (English)
Magic nut (English)
Magic-rope (English)
Mahobohobo (English)
Maidenhair fern (English)
Makoni tea bush (English)
Malabar spinach (English)
Mallotus (English)
Manketti tree (English)
Marama bean (English)
Marijuana (English)
Marula (English)
Marvel-of-Peru (English)
Matobo bitterberry (English)
Mauritius thorn (English)
Mermaid tree (English)
Mexican clover (English)
Mexican fleabane (English)
Mexican marigold (English)
Mexican poppy (English)
Mexican sunflower (English)
Mexican sunflower (English)
Milk rope (English)
Miniature bells (English)
Miombo rattlepod (English)
Mistletoe cactus (English)
Mobola plum (English)
Mongongo nut (English)
Monkey bread (English)
Monkey nut (English) (Cultivated species)
Monkey sugarcane (English)
Mopane orchid (English)
Moringo (English)
Mountain rock fig (English)
Mufuti (English)
Mukwa (English)
Mumvee (English)
Myrianthus (English)

N
Narrow-leaved mahobohobo (English)
Natal cotton plant (English)
Natal fig (English)
Needle bush (English)
New Zealand spinach (English) (Cultivated species)
Nile cabbage (English)
Northern dwaba-berry (English)
Northern galla-plum (English)
Northern stinkwood (English)
Nyanga flat-top (English)

O
Octopus cabbage tree (English)
Orange bird-berry (English)
Orange-milk tree (English)
Ordeal tree (English)
Otter-bush (English)
Oyster nut (English)

P
Paper thorns (English)
Paperbark acacia (English)
Paperthorn (English)
Parasol tree (English)
Parrot-beak gladiolus (English)
Peanut (English) (Cultivated species)
Peanut butter cassia (English)
Peeling-bark ochna (English)
Pigeonwood (English)
Pigweed (English)
Pineapple-fruit tree (English)
Pink garden sorrel (English)
Pink jacaranda (English)
Pink-vine (English)
Pith-tree (English)
Pod mahogany (English)
Poison-grub commiphora (English)
Poison-grub corkwood (English)
Poison-pod albizia (English)
Pompon coffee-medlar (English)
Pompon rytigynia (English)
Porcupine-root (English)
Porridge-stick (English)
Potato yam (English)
Powder-bark monkey-orange (English)
Praying-hands (English)
Prickly acanthus (English)
Prickly poppy (English)
Prince of Wales' feathers (English)
Prostrate globe-amaranth (English)
Prostrate starbur (English)
Prune fingerleaf (English)
Pumpkin (English) (Cultivated species)
Purple-leaved albizia (English)
Purple-wood dalbergia (English)

Q
Quinine tree (English)

R
Raffia palm (English)
Rain-tree (English)
Rare forest fig (English)
Red flag bush (English)
Red hook-berry (English)
Red ironwood (English)
Red mahogany (English)
Red milkwood (English)
Red spike-thorn (English)
Red sunflower (English)
Red thorn (English)
Red-fruit monotes (English)
Red-hot-poker tree (English)
Red-leaved medlar (English)
Red-leaved rock fig (English)
Red-striped cucumber (English)
Redwing (English)
Reed grass (English)
Rigid hornwort (English)
Ringworm plant (English)
Ritchiea (English)
River nuxia (English)
River tamarind (English)
Rock tannin-bush (English)
Rosette Cluster-leaf (English)
Rosette-leaved terminalia (English)
Rosy periwinkle (English)
Rough fingerleaf (English)
Rough-barked flat-top (English)
Rough-leaved shepherds tree (English)
Rough-leaved white-stinkwood (English)
Royal poinciana (English) (Cultivated species)
Rubber vine (English)
Rubber vine (English)

S
Sand apricot-vine (English)
Sand jackal-berry (English)
Sandpaper raisin (English)
Sausage tree (English)
Schmitz’s cycad (English)
Scrambled egg (English)
Scrambling dutchman's pipe (English)
Screw-pine (English)
Shaggy soldier (English)
Shakama plum (English)
Shepherd's purse (English)
Siamese cassia (English) (Cultivated species)
Siamese senna (English) (Cultivated species)
Sickle bush (English)
Sickle-leaved albizia (English)
Silk-cotton tree (English)
Silk-rubber (English)
Silky indigo (English)
Silver spinach (English)
Simple-spined num-num (English)
Sjambok pod (English)
Small caterpillar-pod (English)
Small lantana (English)
Small myrsine (English)
Small red-heart (English)
Small-flowered canna (English)
Small-fruited toad-tree (English)
Small-fruited voacanga (English)
Small-leaved dragon tree (English)
Smelly-berry fingerleaf (English)
Smilax (English)
Smooth senna (English)
Smooth-barked flat-crown (English)
Snake bean (English)
Snake-root (English)
Snot apple (English)
Soccerball fruit (English)
Soft-leaved commiphora (English)
Sorrel (English)
Sorrel (English)
Spider-wisp (English)
Spindle pod (English)
Spiny climbing dalbergia (English)
Spiny cucumber (English)
Spiny monkey-orange (English)
Spiny-leaved monkey-orange (English)
Splinter bean (English)
Star-flowered bitter-tea (English)
Stem-fruit (English)
Stem-fruit miraculous-berry (English)
Sticky pod (English)
Sticky purple cleome (English)
Sticky purple mousewhiskers (English)
Sticky-leaved rubia (English)
Stilt-root mahobohobo (English)
Stinging nettle (English)
Stinking roger (English)
Stipe-fruited strychnos (English)
Strombosia (English)
Stuhlmann's fig (English)
Sundew (English)
Sweet broomweed (English)
Sweet prickly-pear (English)
Sycomore fig (English)
Sycomore fig (English)

T
Tamani berry (English)
Tamarind (English)
Tarvine (English)
Tassel berry (English)
The African yam bean (English)
Thorny elm (English)
Three-finger bush (English)
Three-leaved combretum (English)
Tiny Sweetvetch (English)
Tobacco tree (English)
Tobacco witchweed (English)
Tonga-kierie (English)
Transvaal sumach (English)
Tree entada (English)
Tree grape (English)
Tree orchid (English)
Tree vernonia (English)
Trellis-vine (English)

U
Upright starbur (English)
Urnfig (English)

V
Vegetable sponge (English)
Veld lupin (English)
Velvet bean (English)
Velvet bushwillow (English)
Velvet wild medlar (English)
Velvet-fruit zanha (English)
Velvet-leaved corkwood (English)
Violet tree (English)

W
Wandering jew (English)
Wandering jew (English)
Water elder (English)
Water grass (English)
Water hyacinth (English)
Water lettuce (English)
Water melon (English)
Watercress (English)
Waterlily (English)
White candles (English)
White ribbon bush (English)
White seringa (English)
White stinkwood (English)
White syringa (English)
White thorn (English)
White witch-hazel (English)
Wild banana (English)
Wild custard-apple (English)
Wild date palm (English)
Wild frangipani (English)
Wild loquat (English)
Wild lucerne (English)
Wild pepper (English)
Wild pepper (English)
Wild rubber (English)
Wild sarsaparilla (English)
Wild white plumbago (English)
Wing-leaved wooden pear (English)
Winged bersama (English)
Winter cassia (English)
Winter thorn (English)
Winter-flowering senna (English)
Witchweed (English)
Wooden pear (English)
Woodland dogplum (English)
Woodland rothmannia (English)
Woodland waterberry (English)
Woolly caper-bush (English)
Woolly senna (English)
Wormseed (English)

Y
Yellow bauhinia (English)
Yellow commelina (English)
Yellow fleabane (English)
Yellow justicia (English)
Yellow nut-grass (English)
Yellow nutsedge (English)
Yellow sorrel (English)
Yellowwood bitterberry-rope (English)

Z
Zambezi brown-ironwood (English)

543 names found

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