Dear all, The plant in the attached photo is .................. *Solanum sisymbriifolium* Lamarck, Tabl. Encycl. 2: 25. 1794
Herbs annual, copiously armed, pubescent with glandular, many-celled, simple and stellate hairs. Stems erect, with yellow or orange-yellow, subulate prickles 2-10 × 1.5 mm. Leaves simple or sometimes pinnate; petiole 1.5-4 cm; leaf blade oblong or ovate, 4.5-10(-14) × 2.5-5(-8) cm, stellate pubescent, sometimes shaggy, often armed along main veins on both surfaces, pinnately lobed or parted; lobes pinnately lobed or dentate, apex acute. Inflorescences axillary or extra-axillary scorpioid racemes; peduncle branched or not. Pedicel 5-10 mm. Calyx cup-shaped, ca. 1 cm; lobes ovate-lanceolate, ca. 5 × 2 mm, pubescent and prickly as on stems. Corolla purplish or white, stellate, 1.6-3.5 cm; lobes ovate, 10 × 4-8 mm, sparsely hairy. Filaments ca. 1 mm, glabrous; anthers lanceolate, ca. 9 mm. Ovary puberulent. Style 1-1.2 cm. Fruiting pedicel 1-1.5 cm, stout. Fruiting calyx enlarged, longer than fruit, densely prickly and enveloping most berry, ultimately flaring wide and exposing it. Berry bright red, subglobose, 1-2 cm in diam. Seeds reniform, ca. 2.5 × 2 mm. Fl. and fr. warm months of the year. Regards Tanay On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:48 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Confirmed again by Vijayasankar ji in another thread > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/37995931f8218502# > as below: > "The second picture (100_1031) with white flowers and dissected/lobed > leaves > probably belongs to *Solanum sissimbrifolium*." > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > Date: 4 April 2009 22:22 > Subject: Fwd: [indiantreepix:9817] Solanum xanthocarpum > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > > > Forwarding again for Id pl. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: sibdas ghosh <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/3/28 > Subject: [indiantreepix:9817] Solanum xanthocarpum > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > > > Are these Solanum xanthocarpum ? They are with white flowers, I had > also seen violet flowers, hence confusion. Prantik, March 18, 09 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "indiantreepix" 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.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > "We often ignore the beauty around us" > Creating Awareness about Indian Flora & Fauna: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > For learning about our trees & plants, please visit/ join Google e-group > (Indiantreepix) http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, > Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix > > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile) 9674221362 (Mobile) -- 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.
