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Nightshade? Solanacea family?
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Posted by funnelweb NSW Aust (My Page) on Tue, Jul 12, 05 at 0:05
| A neighbour showed me a piece of a stem with a leaf of it and a couple of fruit(s) and asked me to id. it! I had seen the plant about 6 months ago growing in a nursery at Kingcliff, NSW, and am sure it was one of the Solanacea family, I think a nightshade. The plant has unusual jet black stems with serrated or toothed edges to dark green leaves growing I think alternately though the stems were mostly bare except at the tips. The neighbour said he had a flower but it died - purply-bluish, tubular in shape. The fruit is a greyish nobbly ball about the size of a golf ball with pale white flesh around bunches of browny seeds slightly resembling the shape of a walnut. Sorry, that's about all I've got, anyone got any clue as to what it might be? |
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RE: Nightshade? Solanacea family?
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- Posted by deejaus Melb.Vic. Aust (My Page) on
Tue, Jul 12, 05 at 21:52
It cetainly sounds like some sort of solanum to me, but there are so many, it's hard to pinpoint without a picture.
Cheers,
Dee. |
RE: Nightshade? Solanacea family?
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| Yes, I know, unfortunately my computer suddenly told me it cant find the port my camera is at and no matter what I try I cant seem to fix the problem. My printer has also gone that way and I haven't got around to pulling out all the wires and connections to take the thing to the computer rapair shop. Thanks anyway Dee. |
RE: Nightshade? Solanacea family?
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| Probably a Datura, have seen some purple ones for sale round nurseries myself. Have a "Google Image" search for Datura or Datura metel and you'll probably find it. |
RE: Nightshade? Solanacea family?
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Thanks Alison, I think you're right, I've been trying ever since I posted that message to remember the label on the one I saw at the nursery and the more I think about it the more I think it was a Datura. Not Brugmansia, Datura - the bush form of Angel's Trumpet. I'll go have a look at that website you mentioned. By the way are you 'Alison' who lives at the Gold Coast?
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RE: Nightshade? Solanacea family?
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| Hi Bill, yes it's me. I have some seedlings of a purple one up - can't remember the source. I think I have seeds of the double yellow bushy one if you want any of those I can send a few. |
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