''Solanum glaucophyllum'' is a species of plant in the family
Solanaceae
The Solanaceae , or nightshades, are a family of flowering plants that ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines, lianas, epiphytes, shrubs, and trees, and includes a number of agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, and orn ...
. It is known as waxyleaf nightshade.
It is native to Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
It is usually classified under the section Cyphomandropsis, within the subgenus Bassovia.
It is a rhizomatous plant with a simple stem and shortly branched, growing to 1–2 m tall or more. The leaves are simple, ovate, lanceolate, greenish-gray, and the plant produces 1–2 cm long, bluish purple flowers. The fruit is a globose berry 1–2 cm in diameter, blue-black, and features several seeds inside. It propagates vegetatively by gemmiferous roots of high regeneration capacity in water-saturated soils like edges of lakes.
Its consumption by ruminants produces an illness on them.
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glaucophyllum
Plants described in 1829
Taxa named by René Louiche Desfontaines