Wild Flowering Plants
| Solanaceae family Solanum americanum Miller, Gard. Dict. (ed. 8): Solanum no. 5. 1768. Agouman Indigenous quite common herb of open and semi-open dry and moist areas. St. Barthélemy, Barbuda, Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Barbados, rest of West Indies, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. Local medicinal uses It has been suggested to me that some specimens look like Solanum nigrescens but on close examination, I have decided that we do have a single but variable species. All our plants have a shiny black fruit and the calyx conspicuously reflexed in the fruit so I keep the name Solanum americanum based on FLA. |
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images are of the more delicate type with unlobed leaves, some fruits
erect, rudimentary tiny spines on lines on stem, less angular stems.
Intermediate forms are found. , ![]() These images are of the more robust type with some lobed leaves, fruits hanging down, well-developed spines on lines on stem, more angular stems. Intermediate forms are found.
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