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Chilean potato vine

Potato vine
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Solanum
Species: crispum
Binomial name
Solanum crispum

The Chilean potato vine or Chilean potato-tree or often just potato vine (Solanum crispum) is a South American, perennial, semi-evergreen, woody-stemmed climber that has blue flowers 2.5 cm in diameter with a yellow ovary, producing very small purple berries in autumn. The leaves are oval.



07-14-2008 23:18:10
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