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Liriope spicata is a species of low, herbaceous flowering plant from East Asia.Common names include creeping lilyturf, [1] creeping liriope, lilyturf, and monkey grass.This perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and is commonly used in landscaping in temperate climates as groundcover.
Solanum scabrum, also known as garden huckleberry, [1] is an annual or perennial plant in the nightshade family. The geographic origin of the species is uncertain; Linnaeus attributed it to Africa, but it also occurs in North America, and it is naturalized in many countries. In Africa it is cultivated as a leaf vegetable and for dye from the ...
Solanum torvum, also known as pendejera, turkey berry, devil's fig, pea eggplant, platebrush or susumber, [2] is a bushy, erect and spiny perennial plant used horticulturally as a rootstock for eggplant. Grafted plants are very vigorous and tolerate diseases affecting the root system, thus allowing the crop to continue for a second year.
The pedicels thicken and become bright red as the berries develop. [3] The berries ripen over the summer, turning into fruits that persists on the plant until frost. There are pink- and red-berried plants that have been called A. pachypoda forma rubrocarpa, but some of them produce infertile seed, and may actually be hybrids with Actaea rubra. [5]
Black nightshade is a common herb or short-lived perennial shrub, found in many wooded areas, as well as disturbed habitats. It reaches a height of 30 to 120 cm (12 to 47 in), leaves 4.0 to 7.5 cm (1.6 to 3.0 in) long and 2 to 5 cm (1 to 2 in) wide; ovate to heart-shaped, with wavy or large-toothed edges; both surfaces hairy or hairless ...
Fruits are 4 to 8 millimetres (0.16 to 0.31 in) in diameter, circular, containing two to four seeds, and may be many colors including green, blue, purple, pink or yellow with black or brown speckles; many different colors are present on the same plant. The berries are produced in late summer and fall. The seeds are dispersed by birds.
The plant produces these pigments mainly in the leaves and skin of the berries to protect the pulp and seeds from constant exposure to ultraviolet radiation and production of free radicals. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] By absorbing UV rays in the blue -purple spectrum, leaf and skin pigments filter intense sunlight, serve antioxidant functions and ...
The fruit is a red berry, 7–20 mm (1 ⁄ 4 – 13 ⁄ 16 in) diameter, spherical in shape with a rough surface. [11] It matures in about 12 months, in autumn, at the same time as the next flowering. It is edible; the fruit is sweet when reddish. Seeds are small, brown and angular [11] and are often dispersed by frugivorous birds. [12]