WorldFloraDB - Solanum dimidiatum

Characteristics

Clonal perennial herb to 50 cm, green, pubescent with minute stellate hairs; prickles to 7 mm long, scattered on midrib of lower leaf-surface, petioles and stems. Leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate; lamina 5–12 cm long, 3–7 cm wide, slightly discolorous, lobed; lobes broadly triangular to oblong; petiole 1–4 cm long. Inflorescence often forked, few–15–flowered; peduncle 1–2 cm long to first fork; rachis 2–5 cm long; pedicels 1 cm long. Calyx 8–10 mm long; lobes broadly triangular with slender apex, 3–5 mm long. Corolla stellate, shallowly incised, 30–40 mm diam., violet. Anthers 5–7 mm long. Berry globular, 15–20 mm diam., yellow. Seeds 2.5–4 mm long, pale buff.

More

Of Kans. to Ark. and Tex., occurs in Mo. apparently as an introduction. It has the stellate hairs of the lower lf-surface distinctly stipitate, with 9–13 subequal branches, and the infl is commonly branched from the top of the peduncle, forming 2 or 3 raceme-like clusters. (S. torreyi)

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
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Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Environment

In Qld associated with sugar cane.

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Uses	medicinal poison
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Therapeutic use	Insect bites and stings (fruit), Antifungal agents (leaf), Sexually transmitted diseases (root)
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days)	15 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°)	21 - 26
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