Solanum nigrescens M.Martens & Galeotti

Divine nightshade (en)

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb, rarely to 3 m tall, sometimes epiphytic; stems terete to angled, often purplish; often sarmentose. Leaves to 10 cm long but mostly much shorter, ovate to lanceolate, entire or toothed. Inflorescence a condensed raceme or umbellate, 1-to several-flowered; the peduncle slender, appressed pubescent; pedicels slender, often thickening in fruit, appressed-pubescent, erect or deflexed in flower but always strongly deflexe!d in fruit. Flowers with the calyx lobes ovate, lanceolate or deltoid, not accrescent; corolla white or mauve, mostly with a conspicuous eye, small (to 15 mm across); anthers mostly 2.5-2.9 mm long. Fruit black or rarely green with dark purple markings, dull, mostly 4-8 mm across; seeds 1.2-1.5 mm across. Chromosome number n-12.
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A herb.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 1.5
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Wet thickets or forests or in mixed forests or on dry brushy hillsides, sometimes a weed of cultivated fields, at elevations from 1,500-3,900 metres. Canyons and higher elevations, especially on north-facing slope in Arizona.
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Wet thickets or forests or in mixed forests or on dry brushy hillsides, sometimes a weed of cultivated fields, at elevations from 1,500-3,900 metres. Canyons and higher elevations, especially on north-facing slope in Arizona.
A tropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

The leaves are cooked and eaten in soups, stews, and omelettes.
Uses dye medicinal
Edible flowers fruits leaves
Therapeutic use Sclerosis (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 15 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
Germination luminosity light
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Images

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Distribution

Solanum nigrescens world distribution map, present in Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Saint Lucia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Uruguay, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID -
WFO ID wfo-0001029804
COL ID 4Y3GX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 446022
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Synonyms

Solanum amethystinum Solanum approximatum Solanum caribaeum Solanum costaricense Solanum jahnii Solanum durangoense Solanum frutescens Solanum gollmeri Solanum nigrescens Solanum oligospermum Solanum prionopterum Solanum purpuratum Solanum crenatodentatum var. ramosissimum Solanum nigrum var. amethystinum Solanum nigrum var. nigrescens Solanum nodiflorum var. puberulum Solanum pruinosum var. phyllolophum Solanum subelineatum Solanum sublineatum