ID required - Solanaceae?

[Rajendra Shinde]

Can some one id this? 

Small size tree. In flowers and fruits during Second week of November. Collected near Mahabaleshwar Diversion, Pune - Satara Road.

Fruit size same as pea size. Flowers apprx. 0.5 sm to 1 cm. 

Thank you,

Shinde

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[Gurcharan Singh]

May be Solanum erianthum (syn: S. verbascifolium).

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[Vijayasankar]

Pl check it for Solanum erianthum.

 

Regards

 

Vijay

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Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Research Associate

National Center for Natural Products Research

Thad Cochran Research Center

University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677

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[Rajendra Shinde]

Dear Prof. Singh and Dr. Vijayshankarji,

Thanks for ID. Just checked - its certainly S. erianthum D.Don, also reported from Mahabaleshwar area (I found it few km away from M'war but in the same region).

Syn: S. verbascifolius & S. verbascifolum var exstipulatum

Common name: Kutri.

Flowering: Throughout the year (Almeida, Fl. Maharashtra III (B): 374, 2001,

Thanks 

Shinde

[tanay bose]

This plant is also commonly known as Potato tree and has many medicinal uses

tanay

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