Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Solanaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Perennial, slightly woody, usually much branched, 6-12 dm. high, somewhat pilose, or becoming glabrous, the branches, petioles, leaf-blades and peduncles armed with straight yellow prickles. Leaves thin, broadly ovate in outline, 7-15 cm. long, pinnately lobed or repand; cymes few-flowered, lateral; calyx armed with stout prickles, about one-third as long as the corolla, its lobes ovate, acute; corolla white, about 12 mm. broad; anthers ovate-lanceolate; berry globose, scarlet, glabrous, 1-2 cm. in diameter.
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Distribution
Waste and cultivated ground, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera and Cat Island; recorded from Green Turtle Cay: southern United States; Bermuda ; West Indies and continental tropical America. Cockroach Berry.
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