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Synonym |
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Solanum esculentum Dunal |
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Family |
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SOLANACEAE |
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Local name |
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English- Brinjal Malayalam-
Vazhuthina |
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Flowering and
fruiting period |
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August-March |
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Distribution |
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Paleotropics |
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Distribution
in kerala |
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All Districts |
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Habitat |
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Cultivated |
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Uses |
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Various plant parts are used in
decoction, as powder or ash for curing ailments such as diabetes, cholera,
bronchitis, |
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Key Botanical Characters: 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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