Solanum melongena L.

Solanum melongena L.

SOLANACEAE

- Potato family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Solanum melongena L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 186 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Eggplant

English name: aubergine

English name: brinjal eggplant

Spanish name: berenjena

French name: mélongène

Italian name: Melanzana

German name: Eierfrucht

Grown habit: Subshrub, Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Solanum
Species:

Page counter: 1445 ( AVG: 223.92 / 293.485 )

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Solanum melongena
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Solanum melongena
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, frazione Ronco., BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Picture modified from Gilg, Ernst; Schumann, Karl - Das Pflanzenreich Hausschatz des Wissens (1900) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Solanum melongena
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Città di Torino, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale della Università degli studi di Torino, Orto Botanico., TO, Piemonte, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Solanum melongena
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, località Ronco, orto, BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Solanum melongena
Habit at Home Depot Nursery Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Solanum melongena
Flower and leaves at Community Garden Sand Island, Midway Atoll - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Solanum melongena
Green variety at Foodland Pukalani, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Solanum melongena
Assorted varieties at Foodland Pukalani, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Solanum melongena

Solanum melongena
Long skinny purple variety at Foodland Pukalani, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Solanum melongena

Solanum melongena
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, centro abitato, orto. , BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Solanum melongena
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Solanum melongena
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Solanum melongena
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Brentonico, Orto Botanico, TN, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Solanum melongena
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Comprensorio di San Giovanni, Orto, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Solanum melongena

Solanum melongena
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Solanum melongena
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Solanum melongena
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola di Palmarola, arenile presso lo scoglio di San Silverio., LT, Lazio, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Solanum melongena
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Solanum melongena
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Solanum melongena
Skinny long purple fruit form at Lanai City, Lanai - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Solanum melongena
Flower and leaves at Water plant Sand Island, Midway Atoll - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (FL, LA, MA, MS, PA), USA+ (Puerto Rico)

Distributional map for Solanum melongena L.
Map for Solanum melongena L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Solanum muricatum Aiton [1891]
2) Solanum nelsonii Dunal [1023]
3) Solanum nigrum L. [2109]
4) Solanum pimpinellifolium Jusl. [358]
5) Solanum ptycanthum Dunal [439]
6) Solanum robustum Wendl. [1276]
7) Solanum tampicense Dunal [336]
8) Solanum villosum (L.) Mill. [2594]
9) Solidago altissima L. [449]
10) Solidago canadensis L. [2663]

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