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Solanum melongena var. melongena
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Family:
SOLANACEAE
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Citation: Solanum melongena L., Sp. Pl. 186. 1753, var. melongena; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 234. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 937(658). 1923; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 190. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 279. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 252. 1985; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 502. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 319. 1990; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 317. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 466. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 274. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 213. 2002; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 486. 2009.
Solanum coagulans Forssk., Fl. Aeg.-Arab. 47. 1775; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 236. 1883.
Solanum integrifolium Poir., Encycl. Suppl. 4: 301. 1818.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Aanakomban-vazhuthina, Kathirikka, Vazhuthina
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Asian Eggplant, Brinjal, Egg plant, Jew's apple, Tropical Eggplant
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Description:
Armed shrubs; prickles very small. Leaves 4-16 x 3-9 cm, ovate, sinuately toothed, unequal-sided at base. Flowers blue, solitary or in few-flowered racemes. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, enlarging in fruit, limb 5-lobed. Corolla purple, 1.5-3 cm across, campanulate, often plicate, lobes 5, sparsely pubescent. Stamens 5; anthers oblong. Ovules many; style stellately villous, linear; stigma capitate. Berry smooth, variable in size, purple or greenish. Seeds minutely pitted.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-March
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Paleotropics
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Blue, Violet
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
Yes
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi, Thekkady, Thunakkadavu, Attappady R.F., Kasaragod, Chunakkara
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