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Title | Solanum americanum flower3 (15119422737).jpg |
Rating | 2.5 |
Vetted | Trusted |
Original URL | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Solanum_americanum_flower3_(15119422737).jpg |
Description | DescriptionAPI Introduced, yearlong green, annual to short-lived perennial, hairless or sparsely hairy, often purplish, spreading herb or shrub to 1.3 m tall. Leaves are ovate to lanceolate, mostly 3â8 cm long, 2â4 cm wide, often larger on young plants, margins entire or shallowly lobed; both surfaces green and hairless or sparsely pubescent. Flowerheads are cyme- or umbel-like and 4â12-flowered; peduncles are to 25 mm long, lengthening in fruit; pedicels are 5â8 mm. Calyx of 5 sepals, are 1â2 mm long. Corolla of 5 petals are deeply incised, usually 8â9 mm wide and white or flushed purple with yellow-green centre. Fruit are berries 6â9 mm wide and shiny green, turning shiny purple-black at maturity. Flowering is year-round. A variable cosmopolitan weed in disturbed habitats. Date 1 September 2014, 15:01 Source Solanum americanum flower3 Author Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia Camera location 33° 14â² 33.89â³ S, 151° 15â² 24.35â³ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth -33.242748; 151.256765 |
creator | Harry Rose |
source | Flickr user ID macleaygrassman |
provider | Wikimedia Commons |