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Bayer Code : solsa

Scientific name: Solanum physalifolium Rusby var. nitidibaccatum (Bitter) Edmond

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Solanum sarrachoides Sendtner, Solanum sarrachoides Sendtner

Classification: Solanaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: green nightshade

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Grüner Nachtschatten ; FR : morelle verte ; IT : erba morella verde ; PT : ; EN : green nightshade ;

Biological type: Annual

Seedling:

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

- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, regularly dentate.

Adult plant:

- Height: 30-80 cm.

- Stems prostrate or ascending, with glandular dense and spreading hairs.

- Leaves 2-5 x 1.5-3.5 cm, ovate, lanceolate, sinuate -dentate, pubescent.

- Flowers white, 3-8 in cymes. Pedicels not reflexed during fruiting.

- Fruits : green or black berries (1 cm), surrounded by the calyx till the middle or the upper half. Seeds 2 mm, circa 45-60 in a berry.

- Plant native of Brazil. Rare in crops.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags):   Rare    

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