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Solanum laxum

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Sprengel

Cultivated

C, with cultivars

Offspring

Solanum jasminoides 'Album', Solanum jasminoides 'Album Variegatum', Solanum jasminoides 'Floribundum', Solanum jasminoides 'Grandiflorum'

Common Names

• Potato Vine
• White Potato Vine
• Jasmine Nightshade

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• S. Brazil
• Paraguay
• Uruguay

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• coastal
• forest edge
• riverine forest

Flowering Times

• Summer & Autumn Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• May

Twining evergreen or semi-evergreen tendril liane with terminal or lateral racemes of fragrant 33mm white flowers tinged violet-blue in clusters of up to 12 flowers, fruit a 13mm deep to dark blue or black berry, glabrous leaves

Can become a weed, naturalised in some areas, spreads vegtatively

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• FONZ
• RHS A-Z
• net
• GWC 1997 : Mobot
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List
• G. Don