Solanum tridynamum

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit - coagulant

The fruit are mashed and used as a coagulant, sprinkled into milk to curdle it for cheese-making.

It is a tropical plant.

Mexico*, North America,

Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, St Vincent

A bushy herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1 m tall. The flowers are bright violet with yellow anthers.

Names & Synonyms

Palohusi pusira

Solanum azureum Fernald

References (2)

Samuels, J., 2015, Biodiversity of Food Species of the Solanaceae Family: A Preliminary Taxonomic Inventory of Subfamily Solanoideae. Resources 2015, 4. 277-322
Yetman, D., 2002, The Guarijios of the Sierra Madre: Hidden People of Northwestern Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. p 224