Filed As:
Solanaceae
Solanum nigrum L. s.str.
Solanaceae
Solanum nigrum L. s.str.
Location:
United States of America. New York. Bronx Co. Bronx. Around Jerome Park Reservoir.
United States of America. New York. Bronx Co. Bronx. Around Jerome Park Reservoir.
Description:
Annual herbs, with a single erect stem dividing at top into few, ascending branches; plant slightly viscid, odorless. Pedicels at various angles in anthesis, down-curved in fruit, becoming yellowish in fruit, with purple toward the tip; calyx lobes becoming recurved away from the base of mature berry; corolla white with green center, 9-10 mm broad, the lobes spreading; anthers yellow. Fruit globose, 9 mm in diameter, very dark purple, appearing black at maturity, juicy, the juice nearly colorless but easily becoming purple from the crushed fruit wall or purple pulp around seeds; seeds very pale tan, nearly white; fruit with bland taste, but very slightly and pleasantly sweet, with no bitter aftertaste. Phenology of specimen: Fruit.
Annual herbs, with a single erect stem dividing at top into few, ascending branches; plant slightly viscid, odorless. Pedicels at various angles in anthesis, down-curved in fruit, becoming yellowish in fruit, with purple toward the tip; calyx lobes becoming recurved away from the base of mature berry; corolla white with green center, 9-10 mm broad, the lobes spreading; anthers yellow. Fruit globose, 9 mm in diameter, very dark purple, appearing black at maturity, juicy, the juice nearly colorless but easily becoming purple from the crushed fruit wall or purple pulp around seeds; seeds very pale tan, nearly white; fruit with bland taste, but very slightly and pleasantly sweet, with no bitter aftertaste. Phenology of specimen: Fruit.
Habitat:
Growing with Solanum ptychanthum Dunal (see no. 30111 for a collection made about 100 km. away).
Growing with Solanum ptychanthum Dunal (see no. 30111 for a collection made about 100 km. away).
Identifiers:
NY Barcode: 00823564
GUID: ea67dddf-f34a-4c87-a0e1-b79ea4a9f440
NY Barcode: 00823564
GUID: ea67dddf-f34a-4c87-a0e1-b79ea4a9f440
Map:
Georeferencing Method: GEOLocate Web Application (Georeferenced to the Jerome Park Reservoir.)
Coordinate Uncertainty(m): 739
Geodetic Datum: WGS84
Coordinates: (40.8789, -73.8947)
Georeferencing Method: GEOLocate Web Application (Georeferenced to the Jerome Park Reservoir.)
Coordinate Uncertainty(m): 739
Geodetic Datum: WGS84
Coordinates: (40.8789, -73.8947)