Naranjilla: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Naranjilla in Ecuador is the name of a plant defined with Solanum quitoense in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Solanum quitense Hort. ex Dunal (among others).
2) Naranjilla in South America is also identified with Solanum sessiliflorum It has the synonym Solanum topiro Humb. & Bonpl. ex Dunal (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Gentes Herbarum: Occasional Papers on the Kind of Plants (1981)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique. Botanique (1814)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1852)
· Catalogo de la Flora Venezolana (1947)
· Solanorum generumque affinium synopsis
· Solanorum historiae (1816)
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