Solanum verbascifolium L.
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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 - A stellato-tomentulose unarmed shrub, 1-3 m. high, rarely forming a small tree up to 10 m. high, with a trunk up to 1.5 dm. in diameter. Leaves ovate to elliptic, rarely obovate, 1-3 dm. long, entire or very slightly repand, acute, acuminate or obtuse at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, the stout petioles 7 cm. long or less; cymes terminal, several-many-flowered, long peduneled; pedicels stout, 6-12 mm. long; calyx 5-7 mm. long, densely stellate, its lobes triangular-ovate; corolla white, 10-15 mm. wide, its lobes ovateoblong; berry subglobose, 1-2 cm. in diameter, yellow.
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Discussion
Waste places, scrub-lands, coppices and "old fields, throughout the archipelago from Great Bahama, Abaco and Andros to Marihuana and I). 'His' Cay (Caicos) : Florida: West Indies: Mexico and Central America; old World tropics. Mullein- leaved Solanum. Wild Tobacco. Salve-bush.
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Distribution
Great Bahama, Abaco and Andros to Marihuana and I). 'His' Cay (Caicos) : Florida: West Indies: Mexico and Central America; old World tropics.
Bahamas South America| Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies| México Mexico North America| Central America|