Solanum torvum Sw.
Turkey Berry / Tarung pipit (Bru.); Tarong lowow (Dus.); Tarong cit (Ib.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Perennial spiny shrub that can reach 3 m tall. The plant possesses bitter taste and pepper-like smell. Leaves are simple, alternately positioned, broadly lobed and densely hairy with prickles along the veins. Leaf blade is broadly ovate to elliptic, acute at apex, cordate or cuneate at base with wavy margin. Stems are erect, spiny, green turning brown when mature and densely clothed with fine hairs. Inflorescence a head borne at leaf axils. Flowers are star-shaped and white or cream. Fruit a smooth yellow berry that
The local healers believed that it can provide protection against a curse by infusing the leaves in odd numbers into warm water as herbal bath. The twigs are boiled often with other herbs and the resultant decoction is made into a herbal bath to help the mother to regain strength and as depression prevention after labour. The plant exhibits
It prefers fertile loamy soil under full sunlight or partial shade. It is found along roadsides and in waste lowlands.
Stem cutting.
Distributed pantropically, but probably native to Asia.
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