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Solanum seaforthianum

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Andrews

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Hardiness Zone

Min7C 10-11

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Brazilian Nightshade
• Tomatillo
• Potato Creeper
• St Vincent's Lilac
• Glycine
• Italian Jasmine
• Blue Nightshade
• Nan qing qi (Pinyin)
• Purple Potato-vine
• Jazmin de Italia
• Falsa Belladona
• Guinda
• La Douce-amère
• Lilas Grimpant
• Liane-lilas

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• N. Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Florida
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Dry wood margins
• forest
• primary forest
• riverside forest

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Feb (Nicaragua)

Slender glabrous woody or herbaceous evergreen twining vine to 7m with pilose angled stems. 9-pinnately lobed trifoliolate puberulent serrated leaves to 82mm x 41mm. Terminal & axillary lax racemose panicles, cymes or racemes to 230mm long, of 75 flowers, blue, purple, pink or white flowers with yellow centres to 50mm across, calyx to 2mm long, violet corolla rarely white to 10mm, lobes to 12mm long. 16mm diameter juicy red berries

Naturalised in some areas

Environmental, food, materials, medicinal, poison

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• FOH
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO
• Standley