Gurucharanji: What an interesting leaf pattern... Usha di.
=== On Apr 3, 10:10 pm, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Solanum diphyllum* L., Sp. Pl. 184, 1753 > > Shrubs, up to 2 m tall, branches erect, younger slightly angled from > decurrent leaf bases, older cylindrical. Leaves in unequal pairs; larger > leaf elliptic to oblong, 4-10 cm long, 2-3.5 cm broad, margin entire, apex > rounded, base attenuate and ducurrent on petiole and stem, petiole up to 1.5 > cm long, winged by leaf bases; smaller leaf almost rounded, 1.5-3 cm long, > 1-2 cm broad, subsessile, entire. Inflorescence leaf opposed, scorpoid, 3-10 > flowered., often subumbellate; peduncle unbranched, 3-11 mm long, with > conspicuous pedicel scars later on. Pedicel 5-12 mm long, erect in fruit. > Calyx constricted at base and just below the lobes, 2-2.5 mm long, the lobes > deltoid, 1 mm long, ciliolate, 3-4 mm in fruit. Corolla white, 4-6 mm > across, lobed 3/4 way; filaments short; anthers, 1-1.5 mm long. Ovary > glabrous, style 3-4 mm long. Berry orange, globose, slightly 2-lobed, 7-12 > mm across. Seeds yellow or tan, reniform-discoid, 2-3 mm across, margins > thickened. > > Native of North and South America, cultivated and naturalised elsewhere > mainly in tropics and subtropics. Flowers April-August, fruits May-October > (in Delhi) > > The plant is planted in Delhi at some places. Photographed from Herbal > Garden, Punjabi Bagh, Delhi and Old Delhi Ridge. > > -- > 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > Solanum-diphyllum-Herbal-gdn-Delhi-2.jpg > 293KViewDownload > > Solanum-diphyllum-Herbal-gdn-Delhi-4.jpg > 130KViewDownload > > Solanum-diphyllum-Ridge-Delhi-1.jpg > 280KViewDownload > > Solanum-diphylum-Herbal-gdn-Delhi-3.jpg > 315KViewDownload
