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Brazilian Nightshade

Solanum seaforthianum

Habitat:

Beaches edge

1 Species ID Suggestions

VineWorld
VineWorld 11 years ago
Bittersweet Nightshade
Solanum dulcamara Solanum dulcamara


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4 Comments

VineWorld
VineWorld 11 years ago

Your close! the flowers are wrong for Solanum seaforthianum. seaforthianum has very similar fruit as well but if you look close -especially at the flowers- you can see that this is indeed Bittersweet; Solanum dulcamara. The easy way to I.D. dulcamara is to see that the petals are reflexed (as opposed to the more cup like shape of seaforthianum), and that near the stamens are small white-green dots.
Excellent photos by the way!

namitha
namitha 11 years ago

It happens sometimes when we are very sure of an answer. It always happens to me. I have a small herbarium and I simply write the details of the plant with my previous knowledge but when later I give it to someone to cross check I find out that I was totally wrong about simple facts like this.

Leftless1
Leftless1 11 years ago

I think you nailed it namithahelen, well done and Thank you. :)

namitha
namitha 11 years ago

This flower does not seem to be that of Atropa and the fruit of A.belladona is more rounded. The plant in this photo have greater resemblance to wild brinjal [eggplant] . I can be totally be wrong because wild eggplant and Atropa are in the same family Solanaceae.
I think it is Brazilian Nightshade (Solanum seaforthianum) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum

Leftless1
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Leftless1

Biddeford, Maine, USA

Spotted on Aug 15, 2012
Submitted on Aug 15, 2012

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