Slingshot Remedy. Solanum indicum, Spiny Indian Nightshade or Terong Kuning, Mangsit Hill, Lombok, Indonesia
A whole set of plants answers to the Malay name 'Terong Kuning', which means 'Yellow Egg'. But that's what the Slingshot Lad called this Solanum indicum, Spiny Indian Nightshade. Out of the corner of my eye I'd watched him as I traipsed up the hill noticing his attempts at knocking small birds down out of their trees. Not really my kind of sport or livelihood in the way of for example great Alfred Russel Wallace - who never made it up this hill - whose line (1859) is just visible over the Young Man's right shoulder.
I'd stumbled over a rock chasing after a particularly beautiful huge Carpenter Bee. He'd watched me as well; I got up unscathed but with a slight limp. He pointed to the spiny shrubbery with its Yellow Eggs - Terong Kuning - and purple flowers. It seems a paste is made out of them and then applied to sprains such as those sustained in soccer (sepakbola). Happily I didn't need to do that. Slingshot - diwal in Sasak, ketapel in Indonesian derived from Dutch - was away before I could ask his name, presumably after Feathered Prey.
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Slingshot Remedy. Solanum indicum, Spiny Indian Nightshade or Terong Kuning, Mangsit Hill, Lombok, Indonesia
A whole set of plants answers to the Malay name 'Terong Kuning', which means 'Yellow Egg'. But that's what the Slingshot Lad called this Solanum indicum, Spiny Indian Nightshade. Out of the corner of my eye I'd watched him as I traipsed up the hill noticing his attempts at knocking small birds down out of their trees. Not really my kind of sport or livelihood in the way of for example great Alfred Russel Wallace - who never made it up this hill - whose line (1859) is just visible over the Young Man's right shoulder.
I'd stumbled over a rock chasing after a particularly beautiful huge Carpenter Bee. He'd watched me as well; I got up unscathed but with a slight limp. He pointed to the spiny shrubbery with its Yellow Eggs - Terong Kuning - and purple flowers. It seems a paste is made out of them and then applied to sprains such as those sustained in soccer (sepakbola). Happily I didn't need to do that. Slingshot - diwal in Sasak, ketapel in Indonesian derived from Dutch - was away before I could ask his name, presumably after Feathered Prey.
PS Internet here still very feeble and intermittent... Sorry...