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Wild Eggplant
Solanum torvum
14.08, 120.85
Field Notes
Description:
Solanum torvum Sw. syn. Solanum largiflorum C.T. White (Solanaceae), locally called Talong-talongan or Tandang-aso, the Turkey Berry or Wild Eggplant is a bushy, erect and spiny perennial plant used horticulturally as a rootstock for eggplant. It is a half-woody herb 1-3 meters high; branches covered with short, scattered spines, and in most parts with stellate-shaped hairs; leaves alternate, ovate to oblong-ovate, 10-20 cm long, with sinuate-lobed margins; flowers are many, white, about 1-cm long; stamens are 4, yellow, anthers united into a cone.
Habitat:
Found in a pilgrimage ground on a hill adjacent to a vast pasture land in Alfonso Cavite, just outside Tagaytay.
Distribution: Found in closed forests, forest margins, waterways (i.e. riparian areas), plantation crops, roadsides, pastures, disturbed sites and waste areas.
Native to southern Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and tropical South America. Widely naturalised in the warmer coastal regions of northern and eastern Australia, tropical Africa, Asia, south-eastern USA, Papua New Guinea and on several Pacific islands.
In the Philippines, the weed is found occurring in open, waste places at low and medium altitudes in most islands and provinces, flowering all year round.
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