Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-665.72.15
Solanum aethiopicum
English: Love apple; Wild tomato; Scarlet eggplant; Garden eggs.
Portuguese: Gilo; Jiló; Maxixe.
Name: Solanum gilo is a cultivar.
Mizo: Samtawk.
Use: edible, green fruit, orange-red when ripe.
Region: West Africa; cultivated in Portugal, Brazil.
Botany: waste lands of Florida.