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Solanum crispum

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Ruiz & Pavon

Cultivated

Cultivated as an ornamental

Conservation Status

Endangered

Common Names

• Chilean Potato Tree
• Natre (Chile)

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Chile
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Dry scrubland
• wasteland.

Flowering Times

• Jun-Jul (Chile)

Fruiting Times

Semi-upright or semi-scrambling evergreen or semi-evergreen armed shrub with terminal corymbs of slightly fragrant 30mm mauve, pale blue or white slightly puberulous flowers, fruit yellowish-white berry to 11m diameter, undulately curled leaves

A known weed

Medicine

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• FONZ
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• HUBM