{"id":366005,"date":"2026-06-25T15:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=366005"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:56:47","slug":"solanum-pandeyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/solanum-pandeyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Solanum Pandeyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0A new species of wild brinjal Solanum Pandeyi, has been discovered from one of the remote islands of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago by a scientist from the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/botanical-survey-of-india\/\">Botanical Survey of India (BSI).\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>About Solanum Pandeyi<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_366022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366022\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-366022\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Source-TH-2.jpg?resize=227%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Solanum Pandeyi\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Source-TH-2.jpg?resize=227%2C300&amp;ssl=1 227w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Source-TH-2.jpg?w=661&amp;ssl=1 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-366022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; TH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>new species of wild\u00a0<\/strong><strong>brinjal\u00a0<\/strong>recorded in the<strong> evergreen forest of the Middle Andaman.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was<strong> found growing in the open along the forest edges<\/strong> and was locally known as<strong> wild orange eggplant.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Genus:<\/strong> It is <strong>similar to Solanum lasiocarpum<\/strong> and<strong> belongs to the Leptostemonum clade of Solanum.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses:<\/strong> The plant was used by a Negrito tribe,<strong> the Great Andamanese,<\/strong> for <strong>food and medicinal purposes<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Most<strong> seeds and roots<\/strong> are used to<strong> treat tooth infections.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ripe fruit with jaggery, chilli, garlic, ginger, and salt<\/strong> are used to <strong>make sour\u2013sweet sauce<\/strong> by the <strong>Ranchi and Bengali settler community<\/strong> of the island.<\/li>\n<li>In future, it might be <strong>a choice of genetic base for plant breeders<\/strong> to <strong>develop high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0A new species of wild brinjal Solanum Pandeyi, has been discovered from one of the remote islands of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago by a scientist from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI).\u00a0 About Solanum Pandeyi It is a new species of wild\u00a0brinjal\u00a0recorded in the evergreen forest of the Middle Andaman. It was found growing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/solanum-pandeyi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Solanum Pandeyi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11834],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-366005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}