I didn't mean your species is *Solanum anguivi*, Aarti Ji. I simply asked why it had to be *S. violaceum*? In fact fruits here look rather bigger and cultivated *S. anguivi* in Africa are now known as *S. aethiopicum*, I think <http://apps.kew.org/efloras/namedetail.do?flora=fz&taxon=11437&nameid=28993> . The cultivated forms are very variable in Africa as can be seen in http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/new/Sorting/CATALOGUE/Pt1-African-eggplants.html . But I am not suggesting that your plant is *S. aethiopicum*, because I simply do not know which *Solanum* species are cultivated in Africa and for what purpose, ie. edible or medicinal or ornamental? Without resolving these questions, I think, it is impossible to find the correct ID. Leaves of *Solanum* are very variable in many species, that too in cultivation. Why not your plant is *S. campylacanthum <http://solanaceaesource.org/solanaceae/solanum-campylacanthum-0>*?
There is a paper on African *Solanum*, KEY for identification can be found from page 251 onward - http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/705/1/Jaeger86PhD.pdf Thank you Regards surajit On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]> wrote: > Surajit Ji, Vijayasankar Ji, > Thanks for your feedback with possible ids. > The leaves do look like Solanum incanum. > Another Species I cam across in Google Images with similar looking leaves > is Solanum burchelli. > Also, kindly amend the height of plant to approx 5-6 feet and not as > previously mentioned since pictures were taken at eye level. > Regards, > Aarti > > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Nice pictures Aarti ji! >> >> Can this also be *Solanum incanum*? >> http://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/image-display.php?species_id=150670&image_id=4 >> >> >> >> Vijay >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. >> Research Scientist >> National Center for Natural Products Research >> University of Mississippi, MS, USA >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:53 AM, 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 email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- 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.
