Taxon:
Solanum melongena L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:186. 1753
Verified:
12/02/2010
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
aubergine – brinjal eggplant – eggplant – French
aubergine – béringène – mélongène – German
Aubergine – Eierfrucht – Italian
maranziana – melanzana – mulignana – petrociana – Japanese Rōmaji
nasu – Portuguese
berinjela – Spanish
berenjena – Swedish
aubergin – Transcribed Chinese
qie – Transcribed Korean
gaji –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | sometimes natzd. |
6 | Other | | | | | probable independent origins in s. & e. Asia |
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Naturalized
(sometimes natzd.)
Other
(probable independent origins in s. & e. Asia)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | vegetable | | Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 |
Human food | vegetable | | Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 |
Medicines | folklore | | Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. |