Solanum ERIANTHUM D. Don.
| Synonym : | Solanum verbascifolium L. Solanum adulterinum Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. |
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| Bangla Name : | Urusa, Arasa. |
| English Name : | Potato Tree. |
| Family : | Solanaceae |
| Disease : | Inflammation, burning sensation ,pain, coughs and skin sores. |
| Description : | A shrub or small tree 1.8-6 m high, covered almost all over with dense yellowish or grey tomentum of scurfy stellate hairs. Leaves 10-20 cm long, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate entire, velvety-pubescent above, densely woolly beneath. Flowers numerous, in woolly dicholomous corymbose cymes. Corolla white, about 1.3 cm long. Berry 8 mm diam., globose, yellow, covered with small stellate hairs. |
| Distribution : | Chuadanga, Comilla, Dhaka, Dinajpur, Faridpur, Jessore, Jhenaidaha, Jhalakati, Khulna, Kustia, Narayanganj, Panchagarh, Rajshahi, Serpur, in village thickets and fallow lands |
| Chemical Constituents : | Aerial parts contain alkaloids and steroidal alkaloid glycosides, solanine and solaverines I, II, & III, saponins and sapogenols, solaverols A and B (Ghani, 2003). Solasodine, solasodiene, diosgenin and solafloridine have been isolated from leaves and ste |
| Uses : | The dried plant ground with warm water applied externally to lessen inflammation, burning sensation and pain. Decoction of the aerial parts is used in coughs, burns and as a wash for skin sores. |
| Habit : | Shrub |