| Dicotyledon | Literature for Solanum pseudocapsicum
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Solanaceae -- The Nightshade Family | Bibliography |
| Solanum pseudocapsicum | |
Common name(s): nightshade, tomato, Jerusalem cherry |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Probably native to eastern Argentina, but widely and early cultivated as an ornamental and now naturalized in many warm temperate and tropical areas worldwide.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Erect shrubs up to 1.5 m tall, unarmed, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with simple or dendritic hairs on young growth, later glabrate. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves simple, alternate, elliptic to lanceolate, often 5-8 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, margins entire, often undulate, apex acute to acuminate, base cuneate and somewhat decurrent to petiole, petioles 5-12 mm long. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers perfect, actinomorphic, solitary or few on short common peduncles 5-10 mm long, often leaf-opposed, pedicels ca. 1 cm long; calyx tubular, 2-3 mm long, the lobes long-triangular, 2-3 mm long; corolla white, rotate-stellate, ca. 1 cm long; stamens inserted near base of corolla tube; filaments ca. 0.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers oblong, ca. 2 mm long, opening by apical slits; ovary globose; style 1, erect, exceeding anthers; stigma terminal. |
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| Fruit |
Berries 1-2 developing per cyme, bright orangish red, succulent, globose, erect on pedicels, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, calyx somewhat enlarged. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 24 |
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| Notes |
Self-compatible |
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