Solanum sisymbriifolium

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Sticky Nightshade
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Solanum
Species: S. sisymbriifolium
Binomial name
Solanum sisymbriifolium
Lam.
Synonyms

Many, see text

Solanum sisymbriifolium is commonly known as Sticky Nightshade, the Fire-and-Ice plant, Litchi Tomato, or Morelle de Balbis.[1]

The small edible fruits are red on the outside and yellow inside. It grows inside a husk (like the tomatillo) which burst open when the fruit ripens. The flavor resembles sour cherries and a little bit like a tomato.[1]

This plant has been used as a trap crop to protect potatoes from potato cyst nematode.[2] The stems and leave contain solasodine which makes the plant very resistant to many pests and diseases, with the exception of potato beetles and tomato worms. It can also be used as a hedge plant to keep animals out of a garden, because it is covered with prickles (erroneously called thorns).[1]

Synonyms

Closeup of flowers
Immature fruit hidden in a spiny husk

The Sticky Nightshade has been described under a number of illegitimate scientific names, many of them quite ambiguous homonyms:[3]

  • Solanum balbisii Dunal
  • Solanum bipinnatifidum Larrañaga
  • Solanum brancaefolium Jacq.
  • Solanum decurrens Balb.
  • Solanum edule Vell.
  • Solanum formosum Weinm.
  • Solanum inflatum Hornem.
  • Solanum mauritianum Willd. ex Roth (preoccupied)
  • Solanum opuliflorum Port. ex Walp. (nomen nudum)
  • Solanum opuliflorum Port. ex Dunal (nomen nudum)
  • Solanum rogersii S.Moore
  • Solanum sabeanum Buckley
  • Solanum subviscidum Schrank
  • Solanum thouinii C.C.Gmel.
  • Solanum viscidum Schweigg.
  • Solanum viscosum Lag.
  • Solanum xanthacanthum Willd. ex Walp. (nomen nudum)

Several forms and varieties have been named,[3] but these are generally not considered distinct today:[citation needed]

  • Solanum sisymbriifolium var. purpureiflorum Dunal
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium forma albiflorum Kuntze
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium var. bipinnatipartitum Dunal
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium var. brevilobum Dunal
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium var. gracile Mattos
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium var. heracleifolium Sendtn.
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium forma lilacinum Kuntze
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium var. macrocarpum Kuntze
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium var. oligospermum (Sendtn.) Dunal

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Litchi Tomato article in Mother Earth News, December 2009
  2. ↑ Introducing Solanum sisymbriifolium as a trap crop for potato cyst nematodes in the UK. Version of 2004-AUG-03. Retrieved 2007-AUG-02
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Solanum sisymbriifolium. Retrieved 2008-SEP-25

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