Solanum anguivi - Poison Berry

❏ Binomial Name : Solanum anguivi Lam.

❏ Synonym : Solanum lividum,Solanum indicum var. maroanum

❏ Family : Solanaceae

❏ Common Name : Poison Berry

❏ Tamil Name : Puttiriccuntai

❏ Hindi Name : Barhanta

Solanum anguivi Description

 A prickly undershrub, with dense stellate-tomentose parts. Prickles up to 10 mm long, erect to slightly recurved. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, repand, acute, both surfaces stellately hairy and prickly on the nerves. Petiole up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers 4-15 in number, bluish-purple, in extra-axillary cymes. Calyx campanulate, stellately hairy. Corolla limb 18-20 mm broad; lobes acute. Anthers 6-7 mm long; filaments glabrous. Ovary and style pilose-pubescent. Berry globose, glabrescent, yellow. Seeds subreniform, minutely reticulate, foveolate.

Solanum anguivi Medicinal uses

❀ The roots are used to treat toothache

❀ The leaves are digestive and laxative, and useful in pruritus and ringworm

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