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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC042 : Solanum seaforthianum Andr.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Solanales
Family : Solanaceae - Potato family
Genus : Solanum L. - nightshade
Species : Solanum seaforthianum Andrews - Brazilion nightshade
Plant Location in Melghat : Chikhaldara  
Plant Category : Climbers  
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Plant Family : Solanaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Brazilian Nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, Balli sunde
 
Synonym : Solanum venustum
Solanum prunifolium
Solanum cyrrhosum
Description : A medium sized climber. Leaves unipinnate. Flowers Blue. Naturalized. Brazilian Nightshade is a flowering evergreen sprawling shurb or climber native to tropical South America. It is characterized by clusters of four to seven leaves and can climb to a height of 20 ft given enough room. Leaves are mostly pinnately cut into almost leaflets. Leaves are ovate in outline, 4-10 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, deeply lobed, both surfaces green and smooth except for hairs on margins and veins on lower surface. Leaf-stalk is 2-4 cm long. The plant blooms in the mid to late summer with clusters of star-shaped purple inflorescence followed by scarlet marble-sized berries. Inflorescences are 10-50-flowered, carried on 1-6 cm long stalks. The rachis is up to 10 cm long, flower-stalks 1-1.5 cm long. Sepal tube is 1.5-2.5 mm long, sepals about 1 mm long. Flowers are deeply incised, 2-3 cm across, mauve-blue. The plant is highly heat resistant, but cannot tolerate frost conditions. The plant contains modest amounts of various tropane alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine and should be considered mildly toxic and inedible. The species has become widely naturalised outside its native range and is an invasive species in Australia, Africa, Indochina, the Pacific Islands and India, choking native vegetation and poisoning livestock.
 
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Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :