Tanay ji and Thiru ji The plant is now correctly known as Solanum virginianum L. (syn: S. xanthocarpum Schrad.; S. surattense Burfm.f.).
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?401897 On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:53 PM, TANAY BOSE <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ -- 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.
