Solanum capense
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SolanaceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit - curdles milk
The fruit is used to curdle milk.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant.
Africa, Namibia, South Africa*, Southern Africa,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A prickly shrub. It grows 60 cm tall. The leaves are lobed and 1.5-2.5 cm long by 0.6-2 cm wide. They can be larger. The fruit is a round berry up to 1 cm across.
Names & Synonyms
Solanum dinteri BitterSolanum dregei DunalSolanum milleri Jacq.Solanum namaquense DammerSolanum shiruschuna Mill.Solanum subbiflorum Ortegaand others
References (3)
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 103
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
