Purple Fruited Pea Eggplant is a thorny creeper with bluish violet
flower, more commonly available in Southern India has been used
traditionally in Siddha system of medicines to treat various diseases.
This species is globally distributed in Indo-Malesia. Within India, it has
been recorded in Peninsular India along the highway and waste lands. It has
purple flowers shaped like potato flowers. The leaves have 3 or 5 lobes.
Identification credit: Ramachandran
Photographed in Chennai.
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