Solanum seaforthianum

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 Solanum seaforthianum subsp. var.  St Vincent lilac
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Height: 10 ft to 20 ft
Width: 8 ft to 15 ft
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Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
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Features: flowers
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USDA Zones: 10 to 12
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Flower features: blue, purple
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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.—A very beautiful plant for the coolhouse. Begins to bloom when very young. Var. album, Hort., a variety with white fls. CH


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