Solanum vescum

Plantae

Ordo : Solanales
Familia : Solanaceae
Genus : Solanum
Species : S. vescum

Solanum vescum
F.Muell.

Solanum vescum (binomen anno 1855 a Ferdinando de Mueller statutum)^[1] est species generis Solani, in Australia meridio-orientali sponte gignens, quae fructus edules producit. Arbustum ad altitudinem duorum fere metrorum crescens post incendia duos vel tres annos feracissime viret, qua ratione indigenae Gunai regionem Gippsland colentes terras idoneas ad messes horum fructuum incitandas quinto quoque anno accendebant.^[2]

Nomen Anglicum huius specie gunyang e lingua Gunai deducitur. Fructus primum anno 1855 in opere geographico J. Bonwick descriptus est: "Fructus gunyang thiniorum Gippslandensium saporem magnitudinemque habet Actinidiae deliciosae, frutice generis solani altitudine 6 pedibus proveniens."^[3] Ferdinandus Mueller botanista eodem fere anno "bacam" descripsit "magnam, viridem, fere globosam ... plena maturitate attincta carnosam."^[4]

Notae

↑ Mueller, F.J.H. von, Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants (1855) p. 19
↑ Gott (2005) p. 1206
↑ The gunyang fruit of the Gipps Land sand ridges is of the taste and size of a Cape gooseberry, on a sort of night-shade shrub 6 feet high. J. Bonwick, Geography of Australia and New Zealand (ed. 3a, 1855) p. 204; Joan Hughes, ed., Australian Words and their Origins (Melburniae: Oxford University Press, 1989) s.v. "gunyang"
↑ Berries large, green, nearly globose ... Berries when perfectly ripe pulpy. Mueller (1856) pp. 165-166

Bibliographia

Beth Gott, "Indigenous use of plants in south-eastern Australia" in Telopea vol. 12 no. 2 (2008) pp. 215–226, praecipue 219-220
Beth Gott, "Aboriginal fire management in south-eastern Australia: aims and frequency" in Journal of Biogeography vol. 32 (2005) pp. 1203–1208
E. V. Lassak, T. McCarthy, Australian Medicinal Plants. North Ryde: Methuen, 1983
Ferdinand von Mueller, "Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria" in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany vol. 8 (1856) pp. 165-166

Nexus externi

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[1] Mueller, F.J.H. von, Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants (1855) p. 19

[2] Gott (2005) p. 1206

[3] The gunyang fruit of the Gipps Land sand ridges is of the taste and size of a Cape gooseberry, on a sort of night-shade shrub 6 feet high. J. Bonwick, Geography of Australia and New Zealand (ed. 3a, 1855) p. 204; Joan Hughes, ed., Australian Words and their Origins (Melburniae: Oxford University Press, 1989) s.v. "gunyang"

[4] Berries large, green, nearly globose ... Berries when perfectly ripe pulpy. Mueller (1856) pp. 165-166

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