Turkey Berry
ಸುಂಡೆசுண்டைఉస్తికాయలు
Solanum torvum Sw.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.5 m
- wide
- 1.5 m
Solanaceae
Also called Pea Eggplant, Devil's Fig, Wild Tomato, Turkeyberry, Wild Eggplant
Formerly Solanum acanthifolium, Solanum amoenum, Solanum campechiense, Solanum crotonoides, and 11 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to N. South America, Caribbean, E. BrazilKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 2.5 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- amaclancle, berenjenita cimarrona, Berenjena cimarrona
- root
- berenjenita cimarrona, lok, puluxnu
- myn
- che'el-ik
- Chinese
- 水茄, 萬桃花, 山茄
- Indonesian
- Rimbang, Takokak, Cokak
- Chinese (China)
- 水茄, 苦籽果
- Japanese
- スズメナスビ, セイバンナスビ
- French
- Aubergine sauvage
- German
- Pokastrauch
- Thai
- มะเขือพวง
- Russian
- Паслен страшный
- Danish
- ærtenatskygge
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Solanum torvum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.