Chilean Nightshade Chilean
Solanum crispum Ruiz & Pav.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- —
Solanaceae
Also called Chilean Potato Vine
Formerly Solanum concavum, Solanum congestiflorum, Solanum gayanum, Solanum izquierdoi, and 14 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & S. Chile to Argentina (Mendoza, Neuquén)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 6.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Swedish
- Chilensk stjärnsöta
- Chinese
- 皱果茄
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Solanum crispum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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