Accession Data

Solanum conocarpum

Common Name: marron bacoba [female]

Family: Solanaceae

Country of Origin: St. John, US Virgin Islands

Description: Solanum conocarpum is a thornless, flowering shrub that may reach more than nine feet in height. It is functionally dioecious, with male & female flowers on different plants. Endemic to St. John, only about 200 individuals known to exist in the wild, mostly on private property.2

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 11-12

Accession #: 201400205

Accession Date: 2014-10-20 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1309

Quantity: 1

Source: GJA 5134 seedlings

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Solanales

Family: Solanaceae

SubFamily: Solanoideae

Tribe: Solaneae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 20 October 2014.
  2. Center for Biological Diversity website. Accessed 20 October 2014.
  3. Gregory J. Anderson, Mona K. J. Anderson and Nikisha Patel; The ecology, evolution, and biogeography of dioecy in the genus Solanum: With paradigms from the strong dioecy in Solanum polygamum, to the unsuspected and cryptic dioecy in Solanum conocarpum; Am. J. Bot. March 2015 vol. 102 no. 3 471-486. (Local archived copy courtesy GJA). Last accessed on Monday, September 25, 2017.

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Solanum conocarpum