Solanum hazenii Britton

Species

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Characteristics

above the foliage, the peduncles stout, 8-12 cm long, branching near the top, finely tomentose; pedicels 1-5 cm long, slender, drying angled, articulating at the base, pubescent. Flowers often showy; calyx 3-5 mm long with a conspicuous swollen ring or ferrule at the base, lobed to the base, finely pubescent outside and in, the hairs minute, porrect, multangulate; corolla white, drying brownish yellow, 8-14 mm across, lobed about halfway down; filaments glabrous, the anthers 3 mm long; ovary glabrate to tomentose, the style glabrous. Fruits 8-11 mm across, yellow, glabrescent; seeds 1.5-2 mm across.
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Shrub or tree to 10 m tall; twigs pulverulent with very fine, almost granular, echinoid hairs, often with a yellowish cast. Leaves large, to 50 cm long and 40 cm broad, broadly ovate or elliptical, short-acuminate apically, rounded or short-acuminate basally, above scabridulous with tiny, dispersed, sessile stellae, beneath fine-tomentose with larger (still small) stalked stellae; petioles 4-12 cm long; minor leaves mostly wanting. Inflorescence a long stalked cyme standing well
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 10.0
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Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses environmental use material medicinal poison social use
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Cultivation

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

Leaf

Solanum hazenii leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Solanum hazenii leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Solanum hazenii leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Solanum hazenii world distribution map, present in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Solanum hazenii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

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WFO ID wfo-0001028329
COL ID 4Y2NQ
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Synonyms

Solanum laurifolium Solanum hazenii Solanum verbascifolium var. viridiscabrum