Solanum corymbiflorum
StarSolanum corymbiflorum
Synonyms: Cyphomandra corymbiflora
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In southern Brazil and adjacent Argentina, the ripe green-pulped fruit of Solanum corymbiflorum is eaten and used to make juices, syrups, jams, and liqueurs. In regional folk medicine the leaves are applied externally to swollen or inflamed legs from infection, and to scabies, tick bites, boils, mastitis, low back pain, and otitis; species-specific studies report anti-inflammatory, anti-edematogenic, and antioxidant activity (Piana et al., 2016).
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Botanical Description
Solanum corymbiflorum (Solanaceae) is an evergreen shrub roughly 0.5-3 m tall, a member of the former Cyphomandra group of Solanum. It has large, deeply heart-shaped (cordate) leaves with abundant soft pubescence, and bears branched, corymb-like inflorescences of white to purple star-shaped (stellate) flowers that are minutely hairy beneath. The fruit is an ellipsoidal to globose, densely hairy berry, greenish to yellow-green with darker longitudinal stripes, about 1-3 cm long. It is native to the humid subtropical and warm-temperate forests of southern Brazil and adjoining Argentina, where it is a characteristic understorey element of Araucaria (parana-pine) forest. Like most wild Solanum species it should be treated with caution, as the genus characteristically contains toxic steroidal alkaloids.
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