Botanical Name : Solanum xanthocarpum Sanskrit Name : Kantakari, Nidigadhika English Name : Yellow Berried Nightshade Family : Solanaceae
Description of Solanum xanthocarpum: Found in Southeast Asia, Malaya and tropical Australia. Very commonly found throughout India in plains from seashore to hills up to 1000 m high.. It is a very prickly perennial herb somewhat with woody base. Stem branched much and younger ones clothed with dense, stellate and tomentose hairs. Prickles are compressed straight, glabrous and shining, often 1-3 cm long. Leaves ovate or elliptic, sinuate or subpinnatifid, obtuse or subacute, stellately hairy on both sides, armed on the midrib and often on the nerves with long yellow sharp prickles. Petiole is long, stellately hairy and prickly. Flowers are in cymes or some times reduced as solitary. Calyx tube is short, globose and lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, densely hairy and prickly. Corolla purple, lobes deltoid, acute, and hairy outside. Anther filament is long, glabrous and anthers open by a pore. Ovary is ovoid and glabrous. Berry yellow, green-blotched and sorrounded by enlarged calyx. Seeds are glabrous. Regards, Tanay On Mar 2, 10:16 pm, Thiruvengadam Ekambaram <[email protected]> wrote: > Sir > As desired by you detail is given below for ID > > Date/Time-21.2.2010 > Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Pench National Park > Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Wild > Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Herb > Height/Length- Ground level > Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- With thorn visible in the picture > Inflorescence Type/ Size- > Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts- One Inch same colour as shown > in the picture > Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- > > IMG_0477.JPG > 79KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
