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Bayer Code : sollu

Scientific name: Solanum villosum Miller


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Solanum luteum subsp. luteum Miller.

Classification: Solanaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: hairy nightshade

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Gelber Nachtschatten ; ES : solanum villoso ; FR : morelle jaune ; IT : morella rossa ; PT : ; EN : hairy nightshade ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, acute at the apex, sessile.

- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, margins entire.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-60 cm. Plant greyish, smoothly hairy, nearly lanate, with a strong scent of musk.

- Stem erect or decumbent, pyramid-shaped branched, with branches obscurely angular, nearly smooth, neither winged nor dentate.

- Leaves alternate, stalked, ovate, sinuate -dentate. Prominent veins.

- Flowers white, rather small, in umbellate few-flowered cymes ; fruiting peduncles often shorter than the pedicels ; calyx densely hairy, with ovate lobes ; corolla lanate, 3-4 times as long as the calyx.

- Fruit : small, subglobular and yellow-orange berries.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Solanum nigrum


Ecological profile (click on flags): Germany   Rare     France  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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