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Solanum terminale
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Solanum terminale

Solanum terminale

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The fruits are poisonous and have been used in the Central African Republic as a criminal poison[1]. Although providing many well-known foods for people, including the potato, tomato, pepper and aubergine, most species in this genus also contain toxic alkaloids. Whilst these alkaloids can make the plant useful in treaing a range of medical conditions, they can also cause problems such as nausea, vomiting, salivation, drowsiness, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, weakness and respiratory depression[2]. Unless there are specific entries with information on edible uses, it would be unwise to ingest any part of this plant[PFAF].

Cultivation Details

HabitClimber
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

Seed - sow in trays in a nursery. Prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle and grow them on fast. Plant them out when 10cm or more tall. Cuttings of half-ripe wood. Very easy, the cuttings root within a couple of weeks. Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Solanum+terminale>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
  2. [2]Poisonous Plants of North Carolina — http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/poison.htm ↩︎An excellent concise but comprehensive guide to toxic plants that grow in N. Carolina. It lists even those plants that are of very low toxicity, including several well-known food plants such as carrots and potatoes.
  3. [3]Medicinal plants of Aguambu - Bamumbu in the Lebialem highlands, southwest province of Cameroon. — Focho D.A.; Ndam W.T.; Fonge B.A. · African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology · January 2009 · http://www.academicjournals.org/ajpp · ISBN 1996-0816 ↩︎A research paper, documenting the medicinal uses of 133 species of plants in West Africa.
  4. [PFAF]Plants for a Future — pfaf.org ↩︎