COMMON NAME: JUQUIRIOBA OR JUQUIRI

SCIENTIFIC NAME: SOLANUM ALTERNOPINATUM

FAMILY OF SOLANACEAE

 

COMMENTS:  ONE MYSTERIOUS FAMILY OF THE SOLANACEAE WITH SURPRISES OF FRUITS.

AT THE END OF THE WINTER 2010 WE DISCOVERED ONE STOCK WITH CURVED THORNS AND NOTICED THAT IT MIGHT BEE ONE SOLANACEAE. IN THE SUMMER OF THE SAME EYEAR WE BROUGHT THE PLANT TO CULTIVATE AS ESPALIER IN OUR YARD OF FRUTAS RARAS. THEN WE IDENTIFIED THE SPECIES, WHOSE LEAVES ARE EDIBLE AFTER THE THORNS ARE BURNT OUT. MORE ABOUT THE SPECIES WE DID NOT KNOW IN THE REFERENCES WHETHER THE FRUITS ARE EDIBLE OR NOT. IN THE WINTER 2011 WE DISCOVERED ONE MORE DRIED PLANT IN ONE FORKED BRANCH OF ONE TREE WITH GREEN FRUITS WHICH WERE NOT TASTY. AT LEAST IN NOVEMBER 2012 WE DISCOVERED IN THE FOREST YELLOW AND WHITE FRUITS OF THE JUQUIROBA, WHOSE  FRUIT BOWL IS FIRM AND ALL HAVE THE TASTE OF MARACUJA.

WE HAVE ALREADY PLANTS TO SELL, WHICH ARE RARE AND HAVE TASTY FRUITS!I

 

LEAVES AND FLOWERS

MATURE FRUITS

 

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