Chilean Potato Vine, Chilean Nightshade or Chilean Potato Tree (or often just potato vine), Solanum crispum, Solanaceae. Chile, South America

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Chilean Potato Vine, Chilean Nightshade or Chilean Potato Tree (or often just potato vine), Solanum crispum, Solanaceae. It belongs to the same genus as the potato S. tuberosum. The flowers resemble potato flowers. Solanum crispum is a South American perennial, semi-evergreen, woody-stemmed climbing plant that has blue flowers 2-5 cm in diameter with a yellow ovary, producing very small, poisonous, purple berries in autumn. The berries start out green then yellow orange. The leaves are oval. It grows wild in Chile and Peru.

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Location: Chile, South America
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