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- The genus name, Solanum, is the Latin word, solamen, which means "comforting or soothing." The species name, lycopersicum, means "wolf peach."
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Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). It is the largest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae, comprising around 1,500 species.
May 5, 2022 · The Solanum family of plants is a large genus under the family umbrella of Solanaceae that includes up to 2,000 species, ranging from food crops, such as the potato and the tomato, to various ornamentals and medicinal species. The following entails interesting information about the Solanum genus and types of Solanum plants.
nightshade, (genus Solanum ), genus of about 2,300 species of flowering plants in the nightshade family ( Solanaceae ).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Solanum is the largest genus in the family Solanaceae, comprising of about 2000 species distributed in the subtropical and tropical regions of Africa, Australia, and parts of Asia, e.g., China, India and Japan. Many of them are economically significant species.
- Joseph Sakah Kaunda, Ying-Jun Zhang
- 10.1007/s13659-019-0201-6
- 2019
- Nat Prod Bioprospect. 2019 Apr; 9(2): 77-137.
This is a list of species in the plant genus Solanum. There may be as many as 1,500 species worldwide. With some 1240 accepted specific and infra-specific taxa of the more than 4,000 described, the genus Solanum contains more species than any other genus in the family Solanaceae and it is one of the largest among the angiosperms.
Sep 21, 2022 · The Solanum family of plants is a large genus within the Solanaceae family that contains up to 2,000 species ranging from food crops to medicinal herbs. The genus Solanum has received much interest in chemical and biological studies over the last 30 years.
With about 2,000 species, the genus Solanum is the largest genus of the family and is of major economic and cultural significance for its food crops. Among the most important of those are the potato (Solanum tuberosum), eggplant (S. melongena), and tomato (S. lycopersicum).
