Solanum seaforthianum

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   vine-climber

Height: 10 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10. to 20 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20.
Width: 8 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8. to 15 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
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Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 10 to 12
Flower features: blue, purple
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Scientific Names



Read about Solanum seaforthianum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Solanum seaforthianum, Andr. (S. azureum, Hort., not Fern. S. venustum, Kunth). Beautiful slender unarmed herbaceous or slightly woody climber or trailer, with st. 3-4 ft. long, glabrous throughout: lvs. with 3 lfts., these 1 1/2 - 2 in. long, or the upper ones simple, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate with entire or undulate margins: fls. numerous, in long drooping axillary panicles, on pedicels swollen at the apex, the corolla light purple or blue, star-shaped and usually 1 in. or less diam.: fr. ovoid or nearly globose, glabrous, scarlet. Brazil. B.M. 1982; 5823. B.R. 969. R.H. 1893, p. 177; 1897:424.—A very beautiful plant for the coolhouse. Begins to bloom when very young. Var. album, Hort., a variety with white fls. recently intro. CH


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