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Solanum mauritianum Scop. [family SOLANACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 5
Names
Solanum auriculatum Ait. [family SOLANACEAE]
Solanum mauritianum Scop. [family SOLANACEAE]
Uses
(seed) Medicines: pain-killers (seed) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (leaf) Medicines: anus, haemorrhoids (leaf) Medicines: antidotes (venomous stings, bites, etc.) (heart-wood) Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents (fruit) Phytochemistry: insecticides, arachnicides Phytochemistry: uricant (fruit) Phytochemistry: miscellaneously poisonous or repellent (all parts) Phytochemistry: alkaloids Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended (fruit (birds, poultry); seed (birds)) Agri-horticulture: fodder (leaf) Products: tobacco, snuff
Description
A densely tomentose shrub or tree to 6 m high, native of Uruguay, and long since dispersed to many tropical and subtropical countries of the Old World; cultivated in Sierra Leone, and naturalised in W Cameroons on Mt. Buea (1).The plant has exceptional ab
References
References, as S. auriculatum Ait.:1. Dalziel, 1937: 433. 2. Jaeger, PML, 1985: 328–9. 3. Watt & Breyer-Brandwiik 1962: 990. 4. Willaman & Li, 1970.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Solanum mauritianum Scop. [family SOLANACEAE]
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