tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post5473286983584159407..comments2024-03-27T07:35:21.832-07:00Comments on Plants are the Strangest People: Question for the Hive Mind: Solanum sp.mr_subjunctivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-3919267873641777572011-09-23T03:29:29.213-07:002011-09-23T03:29:29.213-07:00Looks like the common annual weed whose fruit some...Looks like the common annual weed whose fruit some workers I knew from Central America used to eat eagerly while weeding (here in Massachusetts). They believed it had medicinal properties.<br /><br />DonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-3989950709523306032011-09-22T08:41:50.624-07:002011-09-22T08:41:50.624-07:00eeldip has asked the $10,000 question, the amount ...eeldip has asked the $10,000 question, the amount once offered if anyone could demonstate that "Wonderberry" was any different than black nightshade. Given the variations in this species complex, the answer seemed to be no. The purported cross to yield his hybrid doesn't work for anyone else. To read a very entertaining account of this controversy of 100 years ago get a copy of The Phytophactorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11064894836161407416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-87705230949732558072011-09-22T08:04:58.992-07:002011-09-22T08:04:58.992-07:00Could also be Solanum x burbankii, AKA wonderberry...Could also be Solanum x burbankii, AKA wonderberry. i planted some last year, a decently useless plant and they are EVERYWHERE this year. fruit peaking about now. <br /><br />wonderberry tends to be a little less upright than nigrum in my experience.eeldiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08241215073913298993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-25279380068829061792011-09-22T08:01:57.056-07:002011-09-22T08:01:57.056-07:00It looks like plain old black nightshade with unri...It looks like plain old black nightshade with unripe fruits. So you and Paul are both right because S. americanum, S. nigrum, and S. ptychanthum are probably all taxonomic synonyms, i.e., different names for the same species.The Phytophactorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11064894836161407416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-11665255083359363382011-09-22T07:34:42.124-07:002011-09-22T07:34:42.124-07:00Kapt'n Splash:
I don't know what the flow...Kapt'n Splash:<br /><br />I don't know what the flowers looked like; I hadn't noticed the plant prior to seeing the berries. I don't believe there were thorns.mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-25304865038361914822011-09-22T07:10:16.470-07:002011-09-22T07:10:16.470-07:00They're too round to be belladonna. What did t...They're too round to be belladonna. What did the flowers look like, and did it have thorns at all? (We have 3 varieties that grow wild and are trying to take over at the farm I work for, I've done a lot of research into these plants.)<br />But yes, while it is not a potato, tomato, or pepper plant, all three of those are related and have many similar characteristics... even petunias are Kapt'n Splashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16649706348440947038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-63292976447648736092011-09-22T05:13:14.736-07:002011-09-22T05:13:14.736-07:00My guess would be Solanum nigrum or ptychanthum; p...My guess would be Solanum nigrum or ptychanthum; possibly good ol' Atropa belladonna. Hard to tell on berries alone...even potato fruits kinda resemble that.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17083803851861243093noreply@blogger.com