Common Name: Baga de Veado

General Information

Solanum corymbiflorum is an evergreen shrub or small tree usually growing around 50 - 300cm tall[].
The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and a food.

Known Hazards

Although providing many well-known foods for people, including the potato, tomato, pepper and aubergine, most species in this genus also contain toxic alkaloids. Whilst these alkaloids can make the plant useful in treaing a range of medical conditions, they can also cause problems such as nausea, vomiting, salivation, drowsiness, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, weakness and respiratory depression[].
Unless there are specific entries with information on edible uses, it would be unwise to ingest any part of this plant[].

Botanical References

Range

S. America - southern Brazil, northeast Argentina

Habitat

Understory of Araucaria stands, cloud forest, and disturbed areas such as clearings, fields, and stream margins, at elevations from 200 - 2,000 metres[].

Properties

Edibility Rating
Medicinal Rating
Habit	Evergreen Shrub
Height	2.00 m
Pollinators	Insects
Self-fertile	No
Cultivation Status	Wild

Cultivation Details

Solanum corymbiflorum is native to the warm temperate and subtropical climates of southern Brazil and adjoining Argentina. It is unlikely to tolerate much frost.

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw or cooked[]. When mature with a green pulp, the fruit possesses a very sweet flavour and pleasant aroma. In the form of juices it has mild foaming and a potential for making syrup, jams, liqueurs and other desserts[]. The fruit is an ellipsoidal to globose, greenish to yellow-green or yellowish with darker longitudinal stripes berry, around 10 - 30mm x 8 - 20mm[].

Medicinal

The leaves are applied on swollen or inflamed legs caused by an infection, in scabies, tick bite, boils, mastitis, low back pain and otitis[].

The plant has been shown to have anti-edematogenic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities[]

Other Uses

None known

Propagation

Seed - sow spring in a greenhouse. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts.
Cuttings of greenwood in a frame[].