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Solanum wendlandii

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Hooker f.

Common Names

• Costa Rican Nightshade
• Giant Potato Creeper
• Paradise Flower
• Volcán
• Flor del Volcán
• Large Potato Vine
• Blue Potato Vine
• Potato Vine
• Wendland's Nightshade
• Marriage Vine
• Campana de Pascua
• Flor de la Mañana
• Papa Aérea

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane forest.

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Nov (Nicaragua)

Evergreen or semi-evergreen spiny slightly woody glabrous scrambler with hooked barbs on foliage & stems. Pinnatilobate or entire glabrous leaves. 63mm diameter lilac-blue flowers in terminal panicles to 200mm long, calyx 4mm long with lobes, corolla to 60mm wide. Round orange fruit to 100mm in diameter.

Environmental, food

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
• Llamas 2003
• Zuchowski
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Standley