Solanum spirale Roxb.

The young leaves are locally eaten in Yunnan and India as a vegetable, and the roots are used as an anaesthetic and diuretic.

Variety tetrasepalum was established mainly on the basis of having 4-merous flowers. These occasionally occur in many species of Solanum, including S. spirale.

Shrubs glabrescent. Stems erect, 0.5-3 m tall, drying grooved angled. Leaves unequal paired; petiole 5-10 mm; blade of major leaf narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 9-22 × 4-11 cm, glabrous adaxially, with tufts of hairs in axils of main veins abaxially, base attenuate, margin entire, apex acuminate; blade of minor leaf resembling that of major leaf, 5-7 × 1.6-3 cm. Inflorescences leaf opposed or extra-axillary, short, simple scorpioid racemes; peduncle 3-12 mm, later bearing conspicuous pedicel scars. Pedicel 1.5-2.5 cm, deflexed at anthesis. Calyx 2-3 mm, (4- or) 5-lobed; lobes deltate, 0.5-1 mm. Corolla white, 8-10 mm, lobed ca. 3/4 way to base. Filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers 3-3.5 mm. Ovary glabrous. Style ca. 7 mm. Fruiting pedicel deflexed. Berry dull yellow-orange, globose, 1.1-1.6 cm in diam. Seeds yellow or tan, reniform-discoid, 3-3.5 × 2.5-3 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jun-Dec.

Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Xizang, Yunnan [India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia]

Thickets, streamsides, wastelands; 500-1900 m.

Solanum spirale var. tetrasepalum H. Chu.

Solanum spirale (lat. Solanum spirale) - badımcankimilər fəsiləsinin quşüzümü cinsinə aid bitki növü.

Solanum spirale là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cà. Loài này được Roxb. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1824.

旋花茄（学名：Solanum spirale）为茄科茄属下的一个种。旋花茄是一種生長在中海拔地區（500-1900米）的小型灌木，分佈於中國、印度、緬甸、老撾、越南及澳洲昆士蘭。

此植物在印度、泰國和老撾均被廣泛種植於庭院內，並可供:

食用（生果實，煮熟的嫩葉、果實）及 藥用（在印度阿薩姆邦，其根被用作麻醉藥及利尿劑）。