Solanum_glaucophyllum

<i>Solanum glaucophyllum</i>

Solanum glaucophyllum

Species of flowering plant

Solanum glaucophyllum is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae. It is known as waxyleaf nightshade.[2] It is native to Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

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It is usually classified under the section Cyphomandropsis, within the subgenus Bassovia.

It is a rhizomatous plant with a simple stem and shortly branched, growing to 1–2 m tall or more. The leaves are simple, ovate, lanceolate, greenish-gray, and the plant produces 1–2 cm long, bluish purple flowers. The fruit is a globose berry 1–2 cm in diameter, blue-black, and features several seeds inside. It propagates vegetatively by gemmiferous roots of high regeneration capacity in water-saturated soils like edges of lakes.

Its consumption by ruminants produces an illness on them.

References

  1. [1]
    "Solanum glaucophyllum Desf". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  2. [2]
    USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Solanum glaucophyllum". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
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