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Solanum jamaicense

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Miller

Common Names

• Turky Berries
• Souchumber
• Cat-nail
• Port-Morant Tobacco
• Macaw Bush
• Berenjena Jamaiquina

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Pará
• Rondonia
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Florida - USA
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• coastal areas
• forest
• montane areas
• savanna

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)
• Aug-Sep (Colombia)
• Nov (Cuba)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nicaragua)
• Nov (Cuba)

Rusty-tomentose shrub to 3m, tree, herb or scandent tree or shrub, stems tomentose & thorny with sparse spines recurved to 5mm x 6mm. 2-3 lobed leaves to 260mm x 205mm, pubescent, white-tomentose beneath leaves often unarmed or with thorns beneath, prickly midrib. Lateral raceme or umbel to 15 flowers, calyx 4mm long & lobes 2.5mm long. White or pale blue corolla to 8mm x 15mm, white with lobes half that length. Fruit a reddish-yellow to red globose berry to 7mm diameter.

Medicinal, food

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FP
• Botanicus
• HUBM
• SAFIO
• Standley