Egg plant #6, Orange red Fruits without thorns in the leaf veins | ID req - 13JunAR01

[raghu ananth]

Egg plant #6, Orange red Fruits without thorns in the leaf veins.| ID req - 13JunAR01

Fruits are  globose and hairy, no thorns in the leaf veins. Portions of leaf Margins are eaten by insects

Date/Time :	11 Nov 2009 3:26PM
Location- Place, altitude and GPS:	Chandagal farm, Mysore district
Habitat- garden/ urban/wild/type:	Areca Farm, Village
Plant Habit-tree/shrub/climber/herb:	Shrub
Height/length:	- Probably 1 or 2 feet,
Leaves-type/shape/size:
Inflorescence type /size:	-
Flowers-size/colour/calyx/bracts:
Fruits type-shape/size/seeds:	Fruits are  globose and hairy, no thorns found in the leaf veins. 1-2cms
Fragrance/odour/pollinator/uses  and so on:	-

Regards

Raghu

[Gurcharan Singh]

This should be S. lasiocarpum (syn S. indicum L. (not FBI); S. ferox FBI)  with clearly pubescent fruits.

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[tanay bose]

Dear Sir Ji & Raghu Ji,
I am adding the description of the plant from Eflora of China , hope this will satisfy and support the ID of the plant as Solanum lasiocarpum

Solanum lasiocarpum Dunal, Hist. Nat. Solanum. 222. 1813.

Herbs or subshrubs, erect or spreading, 1-1.5 m tall, armed, densely pubescent throughout with pale yellow, many-celled stellate hairs. Stems and branches stout, with flat, erect or slightly recurved prickles 1-8 mm. Petiole 3-8 cm, often with stalked, stellate hairs and erect prickles; leaf blade ovate, 10-20 × 8-18 cm, pubescent as on stems, denser abaxially, prickly along veins on both surfaces, base truncate or subhastate, margin 5-11-sinuate lobed, apex acute. Inflorescences extra-axillary, several flowered, scorpioid-racemose, 1.2-2 cm; peduncle ca. 3 mm. Flowers andromonoecious. Pedicel ca. 1 cm. Calyx lobes ovate, 8-10 mm. Corolla white, subrotate, 1-1.2 × 2 cm. Filaments very short; anthers lanceolate, acuminate, 7-8 mm. Style ca. 9 mm, glabrous. Fruiting pedicel erect, 1-1.5 cm. Fruiting calyx somewhat enlarged, reflexed. Berry orange, globose, ca. 2 cm in diam., densely stellate hirsute, tomentum persistent. Seeds brown, ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Oct, fr. Nov-Dec.

Regards

Tanay

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Vijayasankar ji

Not only me, but Tanay also who went one step ahead. 

Any way thanks for correcting our blunder.

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Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Gurcharan Singh]

Solanum rain did not allow us to see tendrils even, Raghu you helped Vijaysankar ji to bowl us out: all three of us.

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Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[JM Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

[Saroj Kasaju]

Cucumis maderaspatanus L. !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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