A subshrub ( Latin suffrutex ) or undershrub is either a small shrub (e.g. prostrate shrubs ) or a perennial that is largely herbaceous but slightly woody at the base (e.g. garden pink and florist's chrysanthemum ). The term is often interchangeable with "bush".
15-494: (Redirected from Wild Potato ) Wild potato may refer to: Several species belonging to the genus Solanum section Petota , such as Solanum jamesii , Solanum berthaultii , etc. Thladiantha dubia (not related to potato ) Hedysarum alpinum , a species of flowering plant in the legume family called wild potato by the Iñupiat . [REDACTED] Index of plants with
30-401: A few years. Others, such as Oldenburgia paradoxa live indefinitely (though is still vulnerable to external effects), rooted in rocky cracks. Small, low shrubs such as lavender , periwinkle , and thyme , and many shrub-like members of the family Ericaceae , such as cranberries and small species of Erica , are often classed as subshrubs. A chamaephyte, subshrub or dwarf-shrub is
45-649: A global scale: Other species are significant food crops regionally, such as Ethiopian eggplant or scarlet eggplant ( S. aethiopicum ), naranjilla or lulo ( S. quitoense ), cocona ( S. sessiliflorum ), turkey berry ( S. torvum ), pepino or pepino melon ( S. muricatum ), tamarillo ( S. betaceum ), wolf apple ( S. lycocarpum ), garden huckleberry ( S. scabrum ) and " bush tomatoes " (several Australian species). The species most widely seen in cultivation as ornamental plants are: Several species are locally used in folk medicine , particularly by native people who have long employed them. Subshrub Because
60-558: A plant also known as strychnos , most likely S. nigrum . Its derivation is uncertain, possibly stemming from the Latin word sol , meaning "sun", referring to its status as a plant of the sun. The species most commonly called nightshade in North America and Britain is Solanum dulcamara , also called bittersweet or woody nightshade (so-called because it is a ( scandent ) shrub ). Its foliage and egg-shaped red berries are poisonous,
75-406: A plant that bears hibernating buds on persistent shoots near the ground – usually woody plants with perennating buds borne close to the ground, usually less than 25 centimetres (9.8 in) above the soil surface. The significance of the closeness to the ground is that the buds remain within the soil surface layer and are thus somewhat protected from various adverse external influences. Accordingly,
90-503: A wide range of growth habits , such as annuals and perennials , vines , subshrubs , shrubs , and small trees . Many formerly independent genera like Lycopersicon (the tomatoes) and Cyphomandra are now included in Solanum as subgenera or sections . Thus, the genus today contains roughly 1,500–2,000 species . The generic name was first used by Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) for
105-479: Is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants , which include three food crops of high economic importance: the potato , the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). It is the largest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae , comprising around 1,500 species. It also contains the so-called horse nettles (unrelated to the genus of true nettles, Urtica ), as well as numerous plants cultivated for their ornamental flowers and fruit. Solanum species show
120-536: Is being achieved. The following list is a provisional lineup of the genus' traditional subdivisions, together with some notable species. Many of the subgenera and sections might not be valid; they are used here provisionally as the phylogeny of this genus is not fully resolved yet and many species have not been reevaluated. Cladistic analyses of DNA sequence data suggest that the present subdivisions and rankings are largely invalid. Far more subgenera would seem to warrant recognition, with Leptostemonum being
135-840: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Solanum Bassovia Leptostemonum Lyciosolanum Solanum (but see text) Androcera Nutt. Aquartia Jacq. Artorhiza Raf. Bassovia Aubl. Battata Hill Bosleria A.Nelson Ceranthera Raf. Cliocarpus Miers Cyphomandra Mart. ex Sendtn. Diamonon Raf. Dulcamara Moench Lycopersicon Mill. Melongena Mill. Normania Lowe Nycterium Vent. Ovaria Fabr. Parmentiera Raf. ( non DC.: preoccupied ) Petagnia Raf. Pionandra Miers Pheliandra Werderm. Pseudocapsicum Medik. Scubulus Raf. Solanastrum Fabr. Solanocharis Bitter Solanopsis Bitter Triguera Cav. Solanum
150-467: The larvae of some Lepidoptera species ( butterflies and moths ). Most parts of the plants, especially the green parts and unripe fruit, are poisonous to humans (although not necessarily to other animals), with some species even being deadly. Many species in the genus bear some edible parts, such as fruits , leaves , or tubers . Three crops in particular have been bred and harvested for consumption by humans for centuries, and are now cultivated on
165-593: The active principle being solanine , which can cause convulsions and death if taken in large doses. Black nightshades (many species in the Solanum nigrum complex, Solanum sect. Solanum ) have varying levels of toxins and are considered too toxic to eat by many people in North America and Europe, but young stems and leaves or fully ripened fruit of various species are cooked and eaten by native people in North America, Africa, and Asia. Deadly nightshade ( Atropa belladonna ) belongs, like Solanum , to subfamily Solanoideae of
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#1732859423581180-511: The criteria are matters of degree (normally of height) rather than of kind, the definition of a subshrub is not sharply distinguishable from that of a shrub ; examples of reasons for describing plants as subshrubs include ground-hugging stems or low growth habit. Subshrubs may be largely herbaceous though still classified as woody, with overwintering perennial woody growth much lower-growing than deciduous summer growth. Some plants described as subshrubs are only weakly woody and some persist for only
195-431: The nightshade family, but, unlike that genus, is a member of tribe Hyoscyameae ( Solanum belongs to tribe Solaneae). The chemistry of Atropa species is very different from that of Solanum species and features the very toxic tropane alkaloids , the best-known of which is atropine . The genus was established by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. Its subdivision has always been problematic, but slowly some sort of consensus
210-1503: The only one that can at present be clearly subdivided into sections. Notably, it includes as a major lineage several members of the traditional sections Cyphomandropsis and the old genus Cyphomandra . Section Allophylla Section Cyphomandropsis Section Pachyphylla Section Acanthophora Section Androceras : 12 spp. Section Anisantherum Section Campanulata Section Crinitum Section Croatianum Section Erythrotrichum Section Graciliflorum Section Herposolanum Section Irenosolanum Section Ischyracanthum Section Lasiocarpa Section Melongena Section Micracantha Section Monodolichopus Section Nycterium Section Oliganthes Section Persicariae Section Polytrichum Section Pugiunculifera Section Somalanum Section Torva Section Afrosolanum Section Anarrhichomenum Section Archaesolanum Section Basarthrum Section Benderianum Section Brevantherum Section Dulcamara Section Herpystichum Section Holophylla Section Juglandifolia Section Lemurisolanum Section Lycopersicoides Section Lycopersicon Section Macronesiotes Section Normania Section Petota Section Pteroidea Section Quadrangulare Section Regmandra Section Solanum Some plants of other genera were formerly placed in Solanum : Solanum species are used as food plants by
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