This thing came up in a railing planter recently. It's about a foot
high now. I decided to leave it there until I could determine whether
it's something I want to toss out or transplant and keep.

http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant1.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant2.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant3.jpg

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, if that helps at all.


Thanks!

Patty

In message , Patty Winter
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This thing came up in a railing planter recently. It's about a foot
high now. I decided to leave it there until I could determine whether
it's something I want to toss out or transplant and keep.

http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant1.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant2.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant3.jpg

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, if that helps at all.

A Solanum. I wouldn't dare attempt to identify American species.

Thanks!

Patty


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"Patty Winter" wrote in message
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This thing came up in a railing planter recently. It's about a foot
high now. I decided to leave it there until I could determine whether
it's something I want to toss out or transplant and keep.

http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant1.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant2.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant3.jpg

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, if that helps at all.


Thanks!

Patty

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Hard to say (for me it'd be easier seeing the berries as well as flowers)
but a rough guess would be Solanum nigrum.
In any case, it's something I'd not want in any of _my_ planters.

Thank you, Stewart and Nelly!

Nelly, the berries on this one aren't ripe yet, but I think
I had another one of these in another planter a while back,
and its flowers were black. So it may be a solanum negrum.
In any event, given the leaf and flower photos I've found,
I'm sure you're both correct that it's something in the
solanum family. (But not a tomato. I do know how to recognize
those. :-))


Patty

The Solanum genus is very large and diverse, but helpfully divided into a number of sections. S nigrum is in the section confusingly called the Solanum section. This wiki article on S americanum gives you some clues on distinguishing some of the similar species in that section. Solanum americanum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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echinosum wrote:

The Solanum genus is very large and diverse, but helpfully divided into
a number of sections. S nigrum is in the section confusingly called the
Solanum section. This wiki article on S americanum gives you some clues
on distinguishing some of the similar species in that section. 'Solanum
americanum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'
(http://tinyurl.com/6kqy2j)

Thanks! I guess the bottom line at this point is that it might make
a somewhat--but not outstandingly decorative small shrub in a container.
I might move it to its own pot and see whether it interests me when it
gets bigger.

A lot of people in my area have the purple or white solanums (solumna?)
that are colloquially known as "potato trees," but I don't know where
this cousin came from...


Patty

This thing came up in a railing planter recently. It's about a foot
high now. I decided to leave it there until I could determine whether
it's something I want to toss out or transplant and keep.

http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant1.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant2.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant3.jpg

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, if that helps at all.


I would guess the native Solanum douglasii
The leaves are wrong for S. nigrum

It can get 3 to 6 feet high and as wide (but probably not in that
planter

It can be pretty as part of a native garden
Thanks!

Patty
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