Botanical Name

Solanum melongena L. [Solanaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Paul E. Isert

Collection Date-s

1785

Collection Location

Whydah [Benin: Ouidah]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–2021

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 102 II 4

Common Names

Blafo-atropo [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 122:] "Is cultivated." "Is used in the same way as the preceding [S. macrocarpon] both by Europeans and natives [...] The unripe fruit is boiled in soup or is prepared with half-rotten fish; Spanish pepper; salt; palm oil and onions; a dish which the natives regard as a delicacy. The leaves yield a very good cabbage which is stewed in the same way as the fruit; this dish is called 'Fankvau' and is one of the native's choicest foods."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004585

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY-NC 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)