Category / Solanum

A garden favorite, tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) are tender perennials that are grown as annuals in temperate climates. Easy to grow and prolific, tomatoes are the most widely grown garden plants. There are…

Both delicious and ornamental, Eggplants (Solanum melongena), also known as Aubergines, are tender perennials grown for their glossy, exotic-looking fruit. Easy to grow, they come in various sizes, shapes, and colors and…

A staple ingredient in the human diet, Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are cool-season vegetables used in countless dishes worldwide. Grown for their nutritious, starchy tubers, Potatoes are frequently served boiled, mashed, fried, or…

Surviving neglect, Solanum umbelliferum (Bluewitch Nightshade) is a rounded to spreading, evergreen to deciduous shrub boasting a profusion of small umbels of blue-purple flowers adorned with a cone of prominent yellow stamens.…

Solanum xanti (Purple Nightshade) is an erect to sprawling, semi-evergreen to evergreen, perennial or sub-shrub boasting a profusion of small, trumpet-shaped, purple flowers, 1 in. across (2.5 cm), adorned with a bouquet…

Lycianthes rantonnetii (Blue Potato Bush) is an evergreen shrub boasting a nearly non-stop display of lightly fragrant, purple-blue flowers adorned with bright golden centers. Borne on slender, sprawling stems, the cup-shaped blossoms…

Reliable and fast-growing, Solanum crispum ‘Glasnevin’ (Chilean Potato Bush) is a large semi-evergreen climbing shrub that is smothered from summer to fall in large clusters of fragrant, rich purple-blue, starry flowers. Each flower…

Solanum integrifolium (Pumpkin on a Stick) is an intriguing tender perennial boasting large blue-green leaves and charming miniature pumpkins on dark stems in late summer to early fall. Grown as a decorative…

Sweetly scented and fast-growing, award-winner Solanum laxum ‘Album’ (Potato Vine) is a large, semi-evergreen climber with luminous clusters of jasmine-scented, star-shaped, white flowers adorned with tiny, yellow centers. The flowers are produced…