Flora of Rwanda: 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 almond (English)
African beech (English)
African buttercup (English)
African dogwood (English)
African holly (English)
African purslane (English)
Avery fern (English)

B
Bachelor's button (English)
Banana orchid (English)
Be-still tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Bengal trumpet vine (English) (Cultivated species)
Big-leaf (English)
Bitter almond (English)
Black wattle (English)
Black-eyed susan (English)
Black-jack (English)
Bloodberry (English)
Blue disa (English)
Blue trumpet vine (English) (Cultivated species)
Blueweed (E) (English)
Bottle gourd (English)
Bracken (English)
Brazilian clover (English)
Brittlewood (English)
Broadleaf sorrel (English)

C
Calabash (English)
Calthrop (English)
Cape beech (English)
Cape holly (English)
Cardinal guard (English) (Cultivated species)
Cherry pie (English)
Chinese violet (English)
Chishambo (English)
Christmas berry (English)
Climbing nettle (English)
Climbing turkey-berry (English)
Clock vine (English) (Cultivated species)
Cluster-head protea (English)
Common forest ochna (English)
Common wild elder (English)
Curry bush (English)

D
Devil's eyelashes (English)
Devil's thorn (English)
Dogwood (English)

E
Eared vernonia (English)
Elbow-leaf (English)

F
False assegai (English)
False cape fig (English)
False dogwood (English)
False shiny-leaf (English)
False-fig (English)
Fire bush (English)
Forest bead-string (English)
Forest big-leaf (English)
Forest elder (English)
Forest false-currant (English)
Forest fever tree (English)
Forest nuxia (English)
Forest sandpaper fig (English)
Forest sandpaper figtree (English)
Forest star (English)
Foxglove orchid (English)
Fringe tail (English)

G
Garden nasturtium (English)
Giant devil's fig (English)
Giant salvia (English)
Giant-leaved fig (English)
Golden candle orchid (English)
Granite garcinia (English)
Granite mangosteen (English)
Grassland tree fern (English)
Guava baby (English)

H
Hand grenade fruit (English)
Haroni fig (English)
Honey-scented protea (English)

I
Indian cress (English)
Indian shot (English)

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

K
Kenya croton (English)
Khaki bush (English)

L
Lace-leaf (English)
Lantana (English)
Large-leaved climbing dalbergia (English)
Large-leaved knobwood (English)
Large-leaved onionwood (English)
Lemon wood (English)
Leopard orchid (English)
Loofah (English)
Lucky nut (English) (Cultivated species)

M
Maidenhair fern (English)
Malabar spinach (English)
Mexican clover (English)
Mexican firespike (English) (Cultivated species)
Mexican marigold (English)
Mexican poppy (English)
Mistletoe cactus (English)
Monkey sugarcane (English)
Mopane orchid (English)
Msasa fern (English)
Mufindi coffee (English)
Myrianthus (English)

N
Needle bush (English)
Northern large-leaved dragon-tree (English)

O
Orange-milk tree (English)
Outeniqua yellowwood (English)

P
Paperbark acacia (English)
Parasol tree (English)
Pineapple-fruit tree (English)
Pink garden sorrel (English)
Pink-leaved blechnum (English)
Praying-hands (English)
Prickly acanthus (English)
Prickly poppy (English)
Prostrate globe-amaranth (English)

R
Red ironwood (English)
Red stinkwood (English)
Red-striped cucumber (English)
River jasmine (English)
Rough-leaved white-stinkwood (English)
Royal fern (English)
Rusty velvet protea (English)

S
Sausage tree (English)
Scrambling dutchman's pipe (English)
Shiny leaf (English)
Small-flowered canna (English)
Small-fruited teclea (English)
Small-leaved yellow-wood (English)
Smilax (English)
Smooth-barked flat-crown (English)
Smooth-fruit zanha (English)
Soccerball fruit (English)
Sorrel (English)
Sorrel (English)
Spiny tree fern (English)
Stinking roger (English)
Strombosia (English)

T
Tangle-flowered wild-medlar (English)
Tea (English)
Tobacco tree (English)
Tree orchid (English)

U
Urnfig (English)

V
Vegetable sponge (English)
Veld lupin (English)

W
Water hyacinth (English)
Water melon (English)
Whipstick loquat (English)
Whipstick tree (English)
White candles (English)
White ribbon bush (English)
White witch-hazel (English)
Wild banana (English)
Wild pepper (English)
Wild pepper (English)
Wild sarsaparilla (English)
Wild white plumbago (English)
Willow beechwood (English)
Winged bersama (English)

Y
Yellow justicia (English)
Yellow oleander (English) (Cultivated species)
Yellow sorrel (English)

162 names found

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The Rwanda flora team (2025). Flora of Rwanda: Utilities: List of species vernacular names.
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