Solanum virginianum

• Botanical Name : Solanum virginianum L.
• Synonyms : Solanum surattense Burm. f, Solanum xanthocarpum Schrad. & H. Wendl.
• Common Name : Bhoy-Ringani, Thorny Nightshade, Yellow Berried Nightshade, Thai Egg Plant
• Plant Family : Solanaceae
• Plant Form : Herb
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 25-27, 29, 30
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park, Van Chetana Kendra

About Solanum virginianum Plant :

• Habit : A very prickly diffuse bright-green herb, prickles yellow, sharp, straight, compressed.
• Leaves : Ovate or elliptic, acute at the apex, truncate at the base, stellately hairy on both sides, prickly along the nerves, irregularly lobed, petiolate, petioles stellately hairy.
• Inflorescence : Extra-axillary few-flowered cyme, peduncles prickly.
• Flowers :
  • Pedicellate, pedicels stellately hairy, prickly.
  • Calyx campanulate, densely hairy, prickly, lobes ovate-oblong.
  • Corolla purple, lobes triangular, hairy outside.
• Fruit : Globose, yellow. Seeds subreniform, minutely foveolate.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : May - November
• Significance :
  • Whole plant is ground and boiled in milk and ghee and is used against chest diseases.
  • Fruits are useful for toothache.
  • Roots are reported to be apetiser. It cures cough, rheumatism, fevers, asthma, bronchitis and colds.
  • Fruit cures leucoderma, cough and rheumatism.