Wild green.
Name - Origin
It is a medicinal native green (Great Encyclopedia of Cyprus, vol. 2, entry αρκοπομηλορκά,η, 303).
Scientific name: Solanum nigrum/Solanaceae (Yangoullis 2009, entry πομιλόχορτον,το, 375).
English: Black nightshade, of the Strychnidae family (Great Encyclopedia of Cyprus, vol. 2, entry αρκοπομηλορκά,η, 303)
It is consumed boiled.
Functional and symbolic role
This plant contains solanine, a toxic alkaloid, which is mainly concentrated in its fruit. Only the tender shoots are consumed.
Additional information and bibliography
Gennadios P. G. (1914), Phytological Dictionary: Containing the names, nativity and life of more than a thousand plants, including those cultivated for their usefulness or cultivated by the people, whose history, cultivation, products and diseases are also described, From the Printing House of Paraskevas Leoni, Athens.
Yangoullis K. G. (2009), Thesaurus of the Cypriot dialect. Interpretative, Etymological, Phraseological and Nomenclatural Dictionary of the Medieval and Modern Cypriot Dialect, Theopress Publications, Nicosia.
Pavlides A. (ed.) (1985), Great Encyclopedia of Cyprus, vol. 2, Filokypros, Nicosia.
Kyriaki Panteli, Argyro Xenophontos