Botanical Name

Solanum dasyphyllum Schumach. & Thonn. [Solanaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Peter Thonning

Collection Date-s

1799 – 1803

Collection Location

southern part of the country [Ghana]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–2082

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: HB. VAHLII Solanum (grandiflora hirsutissimum: crossed out) dasyphyllum Thonning e
Guinea 144.

On label: Solanum dasyphyllum Thonning teste Bitter

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 102 I 3-4

Solanum dasyphyllum Schumach. and Thonn. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 126 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 144; ex herb. Martin Vahl

Common Names

Atropo-bah [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 121-122:] "Is cultivated by the natives." "The unripe fruit is used in the same way as S. oleraceum [S. macrocarpon] [...] 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

C10004579

C10004579

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)