As per FoC the height of *S. violaceum* Ortega is 0.5 to 2 m. The species here is more than twice as big and it is cultivated and comes from Africa. Why they would cultivate *S. violaceum* when they have their own *S. anguivi* Lam.?
Thank you Regards surajit On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:23 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > From another thread > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/fAw9xo3GI_Q>: > "I think this is *Solanum violaceum *Orteg." > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]> > Date: 1 July 2011 at 09:30 > Subject: [efloraofindia:72972] Solanum for ID : Kenya : 010711 : AK-3 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > Taken at Nairobi,Kenya on the 30th of Jan, 2009. > A cultivated plant....flowers look like Brinjal. > Height was 5-6 meters,unusually very high for normal Brinjal. > Fruits can be seen....both unripe and ripe. > Kindly id. > Regards, > Aarti > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of > Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
