Occurrence (Special Areas) :
Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park
About Solanum melongena Plant :
Habit : A perennial herb, prickly with stem terete, prickly, stellate tomentose in younger parts.
Leaves : Ovate or ovate-oblong, irregularly lobed, acute at the apex, truncate or rounded at the base, stellately tomentose on both sides, prickly along the nerves, petiolate.
Inflorescence : Extra-axillary 1-flowered or few-flowered.
Flowers :
Pedicellate, the lowest only perfect nodding.
Pedicels stellate tomentose.
Calyx campanulate, stellate, tomentose, strongly prickly in the fertile flowers, 5-7 lobed, lobes elliptic, acute, tomentose on the inner surface.
Corolla violate, tube green glabrous, 5-7 lobed, midpetaline bands densely white-stellate-tomentose on both sides.
Stamens 5-7 equal.
Fruit :
Fleshy berry, variable in size, suborbicular or obovate or pyriform, shining, cream-coloured or streaked with purple or deep purple uniformly.
Seeds very small, pale yellow.
Flowering and Fruiting Time : Throughout the year.
