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| Vernacular name | Bhantahi, Vrihati | |
| Scientific name | Solanum violaceum Ortega | |
| Family | Solanaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Leaves are ovate, 3.5 to 15 centimeters long, 2.5 to 8 centimeters wide, lobed or pinnatifid in the margins, blunt or pointed at the tip, pointed at the base, and stellately woolly beneath. Leaves in the branchlets are much smaller. | Photo Gallery |
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| Fruit/ seed | Fruit-yellow fruits, rounded, about 1.5 centimeters in diameter. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Road side and wastelands | |
| Flowering and fruiting | October to November | |
| Associated with | Lantana and other roadside flora | |
| Habit | An erect undershrub, 0.3 to 1.5 meters high. Stems are much branched, very prickly, and bearing compressed, stout, often recurved prickles. | |
| Inflorescence | Flowers are blue, borne in extra-axillary racemes. Calyx-lobes in flower are triangular, very woolly, unarmed, or furnished with slender, straight spines. Corolla is broadly triangular, 2 to 2.5 centimeters long, and hairy on the outside. | |
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