- Family : SOLANACEAE
(Nightshade Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BAINGAN FAMILY (बैंगन फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Solanaceae
- Synonym(s) : Solanum oviferum Nocca; Solanum ovigerum Dunal
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Solanum melongena L.
- Common name : Asian Eggplant, Brinjal, Egg plant, Jew's apple, Tropical Eggplant
- Vernacular name :
- Vanga (Telugu)
- Badne kaai (Kannada)
- Wanga (Marathi)
- Aanakomban-vazhuthina, Kathirikka, Vazhuthina (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Widely cultivated
- Comments / notes : Cultivated for fuits
- Key identification features : Undershrubs, bushy, more or less prickly; younger parts densely tomentose; Leaves elliptic, subentire or shallowly lobed, glabrescent to sparsely stellate-pubescent; Flowers solitary or several in cymes, blue; Fruits large, globose or elongate, violet green, rarely white.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Borneo, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Réunion, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Tropics of the World
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 207
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Solanum melongena var. melongena. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.
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