Re: Mystery Potato
- To: <K*@aol.com>, <m*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: Re: Mystery Potato
- From: "* B* <b*@mcmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:15:46 +0100
Kurt - solanum laciniatum , I think .Easy from seed poisonous as you'd
expect. produces fruit like small plum tomatoes. Over winters here in London
, though cut to the ground by frost .
Hope that helps
Veronica
London
-----Original Message-----
From: K1MIZE@aol.com <K1MIZE@aol.com>
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: 15 July 1999 18:11
Subject: Mystery Potato
>All:
>
>I need some help identifying a mystery potato. I purchased a plant last
year
>that was just labeled "Potato Vine," although it clearly wasn't a vine. It
>is an upright, herbaceous perennial in the Solanaceae. It might even be in
>the genus Solanum. The maroon-colored, upright stems are .5m to nearly one
>meter in length. The branches and leaves are opposite. The leaves are dark
>green, lanceolate, entire to irregularly toothed, and 5 to 15cm in length.
>The rich purple-blue flowers are large, around 4cm across, the 5 petals
>uniting into a tubular corolla around 3cm in length. They appear in
clusters
>of 2 to 4 on branched stems arising in the axils of the leaves, although
>usually only one flower per cluster is open at a time. The plant died
>completely back this winter, and I cut it to the ground, but it came back
>from the roots and even sent up a couple of wandering shoots nearby, so it
>shows some tendency to spread, albeit slowly. Anyway, I'd like to know
what
>it is, and if any of you recognize it from this description, please drop me
a
>line. Thanks.
>
>Kurt Mize
>Stockton, California
>USDA Zone 9
>
