Apple-of-Peru
पोपटी
Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- —
Solanaceae
Also called Shoo-fly plant, Shoo-fly, Rivabe, Apple of Peru
Formerly Atropa daturifolia, Atropa physalodes, Calydermos erosus, Nicandra brevicorollata, and 12 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Peru to NW. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Belladona Americana, Mostaza, Capulí Cimarrón
- root
- NICPHY, linyooko, gqwangugqangu
- Czech
- lilík mochyňovitý
- Chinese
- 大本炮仔草, 假酸漿, 假酸浆
- Danish
- Kantbæger
- Norwegian Bokmål
- giftbær
- Japanese
- オオセンナリ
- German
- Giftbeere
- Finnish
- perunkoiso
- Russian
- Никандра физалисовидная
- Lithuanian
- Dumplūninė nikandra
- Slovak
- nikandra machovkovitá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Nicandra physalodes (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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