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Solandra grandiflora

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Swartz

Cultivated

C,ornamental

Hardiness Zone

Min7C

Common Names

• Silver Chalice
• Silver Cup
• Chalice Vine
• Copa de Oro (Mexico)
• Tetona (Mexico)

Geographical Habitats

• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• swamp woodland edge
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Mar-Apr (Jamaica)
• Feb (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Dec

Semi-scandent, hemi-epiphytic glabrous evergreen rampant woody climber with fragrant terminal 300mm across yellow striped purple normally solitary flowers or up to 3, calyx to 90mm long, corolla tube 200mm long with 5 whitish or yellowishish lobes with 5 greenish ribs , genitals exserted, pale yellow-green woody berry 30mm long, glabrous or pubescent mucronulate leaves, radicant stems, calyx and young branches clothed with down

Naturalised

Edible fruit, medicinal uses, environmental uses

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• RSNRV
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO