Solanum tridynamum
Dunal
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Description
A bushy herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1 m tall. The flowers are bright violet with yellow anthers.
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Edible Uses
The fruit are mashed and used as a coagulant, sprinkled into milk to curdle it for cheese-making.
Traditional Uses
The fruit were mashed and sprinkled into milk to coagulate it for cheese.
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Distribution
It is a tropical plant.
Where It Grows
Mexico*, North America,
Synonyms
Solanum azureum Fernald
Also Known As
Palohusi pusira
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
