Lycianthes laevis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Lycianthes laevis (Dunal) Bitter

Family: Solanaceae

• Solanum blumii Nees ex Blume.

• Indonesia: bulung (Sundanese)
• Malaysia: terong chator.

Not well known. Possibly from India to Indonesia, including Burma, Peninsular Malaysia and Java.

The leaves are eaten raw or steamed as a vegetable. The fruits are edible and said to be sweet. The seeds are used to cure toothache.

• Herb or low shrub. up to 2 m tall with zigzag stem and purple flowers.
• Leaves alternate, petiole up to 4.5 cm long; leaf-blade oblong-lanceolate, 1-25 cm × 1-9.5 cm, oblique at base.
• Fruit an orange-red berry, 7-10 mm in diameter.

In humid forest, up to 3000 m altitude.

7, 20, 44.