Wild Flowering Plants
| Solanaceae
family Solanum torvum Swartz in Prodr. 47. 1788. Béléjenn djab Indigenous common spiny shrub of open and semi-open dry and moist areas and along forest rivers. St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Antigua, Saba, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Les Saintes, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, rest of West Indies, Mesoamerica, South America. Solanum melongena (eggplant) is often grafted onto rootstock of this species, so also cultivated. Local medicinal uses |
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