Indian Nightshade
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Common name: Indian nightshade, Barhati बर्हट्टी (Hindi), Barhatta बरहट्टा (Hindi), Leipungkhangga (Manipuri), கரிமுள்ளி Karimulli (Tamil), Puttiriccunta (Malayalam)
Botanical name: Solanum indicum
Family: Solanaceae (potato family)
A much branched shrub 0.3-1.5 m high, with large prickles. Stem stout,often purple.Branches covered with minute stellate hairs. Leaves 5-15 by 2.5-7.5 cm ovate in outline,acute,clothed with simple hairs. Flowers in racemose extra axillary cymes, purple coloured, clothed with darker purple coloured hairs. Fruit berry 8 mm diameter globose, dark yellow, when ripe. Seeds minutely pitted.
Medicinal uses: In Manipur, a paste of Indian nightshade fruit with honey is administered as a medicine for high fever.
