Herbal Garden (Muligai Vanam) Red Pea Egg plant

Solanum trilobatum (L.) belongs to the family Solanaceae, native to India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. This shrub is found mostly in dry places as a weed along roadsides and waste lands. It is a prickly diffuse, bright green scrambling shrub, woody at the base, 2–3 m height. Leaves are deltoid or triangular, irregularly lobed. The entire stem and leaves contain thorns all over the plant. Flowers are star shaped purplish-blue, in cymes. Fruits are small, globose and contain numerous tiny seeds. They come in light green colour and turn red when ripe.