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Lycianthes virgata

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

(Lamarck) Bitter

Common Names

• Berenjena de Paloma

Geographical Habitats

• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• wasteland
• montane forest
• riverside shrubs

Flowering Times

• Jul-Aug (Puerto Rico)
• Aug (Hispaniola)

Fruiting Times

• Nov (Puerto Rico)
• Aug (Hispaniola)

Sometimes scandent shrub or woody twiner to 5m+ with pilose stems. Leaves with scattered hairs above, tomentose beneath to 140mm x 78mm. Axillary fascicles or umbels of 5-10 flowers, pale violet or lilac flowers 20mm diameter with 5 greenish ribs outside, tomentose outside, 10-toothed tomentose calyx to 4mm long, teeth to 1mm long, violet-blue corolla to 13mm long. Orange-red fruit 8mm diameter,

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• SAFIO
• Plantae Wrightianae