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Common names include Chilean potato vine, Chilean nightshade, Chilean potato tree and potato vine. Growing to 6 m (20 ft) tall, it is a semi-evergreen, woody-stemmed climbing plant. The small blue fragrant flowers, 2.5 cm in diameter, with prominent yellow ovaries, appear in clusters in summer. They resemble those of the closely related potato.
Ipomoea pandurata, known as man of the earth, [1] wild potato vine, manroot, wild sweet potato, and wild rhubarb, [2] is a species of herbaceous perennial vine native to North America. It is a twining plant of woodland verges and rough places with heart-shaped leaves and funnel-shaped white flowers with a pinkish throat.
Solanum wendlandii, the giant potato creeper, potato vine, Costa Rican nightshade, divorce vine, or paradise flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, and northwest South America, and has been widely introduced as an ornamental to other tropical locales, including the Caribbean ...
Growing as an ornamental plant near a staircase. Solanum laxum is cultivated as an ornamental. The white-flowered cultivar 'Album' has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [5] It is hardy down to −10 °C (14 °F), but requires a sheltered position in full sun. The plant is poisonous, causing abdominal pain if ...
Other parts of the plant are also covered in trichomes, including the berries, leaves, stem tips, [5] and petioles. Broken roots smell like cooked potatoes , while trichomes on the leaves, stems, and petioles release an odor similar to tar when rubbed.
Solanum seaforthianum, the Brazilian nightshade, [3] is a flowering evergreen vine of the family Solanaceae native to tropical South America. As a member of the Solanum genus, it is related to such plants as the tomato and potato. It is characterized by clusters of four to seven leaves and can climb to a height of 6 m (20 ft) given enough room.
Solanum crinitum, also frequently called Solanum macranthum (common name giant star potato tree) is a medium-sized (to forty feet (twelve meters) tropical tree from Brazil belonging to the Potato family and is noteworthy for two things. First its flowers continue to grow bigger even after they open, doubling in size, and eventually becoming two ...
Potato vine may apply to several plant species of the genus Solanum. Solanum crispum, also called Chilean potato vine; Solanum laxum, ...