Solanum rubetorum
Dunal
SolanaceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are eaten as a snack.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. In South Africa it grows from sea level to 2,000 m above sea level.
Africa, 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 can be erect or lie over. It grows 1 m tall. The leaves are 2-8 cm long by 1.5-2 cm wide. There are 3-7 flowers in a group near the ends of branches. The fruit is a round berry 0.7-1.2 cm wide. There are 10-25 seeds in each fruit.
Names & Synonyms
Solanum didymanthum DunalSolanum moestum DunalSolanum rivulare Dunaland others
References (2)
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 104
- 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
