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Scientific name:

Solanum chenopodioides

Vernacular name:

Nightshade, Tall


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Tall Nightshade

Scientific name: Solanum chenopodioides Lam.

Diagnostic features
Erect perennial to 1.6m, woody at least below, with ± appressed eglandular hairs.
Leaves entire to sparsely and shallowly dentate.
Flowers (1)3-8.
Corolla white.
Fruit as in Solanum nigrum but blackish-purple.

Chromosome number: (2n=24).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; on rough ground.

Distribution
Guernsey since 1958, Jersey, London area since 1989, very rare casual elsewhere; South America.

This species is keyed out on Page 3464 in the Text Key.

Solanum chenopodioides
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