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Accession Data:

Solanum ensifolium Dunal

  • Common Name: Erubia
  • Family: Solanaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Puerto Rico

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201900413
  • Source: Bryan Connolloy ex Lyn Bohs (Utah)
  • Accession Date: 11-14-2019
  • Bench: 6301 - BPB:6300:Bench1
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 03-27-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Solanales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Solanaceae
  • SubFamily: Solanoideae
  • Tribe: Solaneae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020

References (internal):

  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Puerto Rico

References (external):

  1. Strickland-Constable, Rose; Schneider, Harald; Ansell, Stephen W; Russell, Stephen J; Knapp, Sandra; Species identity in the Solanum bahamense species group (Solanaceae, Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum); Taxon, Volume 59, Number 1, February 2010 , pp. 209-226(18)
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, May 18, 2018.
  3. Solanum drymophilum at IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Friday, May 18, 2018.
  4. Solanum ensifolium at The Institute for Regional Conservation. Last accessed Friday, May 18, 2018.
  5. Graham, M.R., Kaur, N., Jones, C.S., Connolly, B. et al. A phoenix in the greenhouse: characterization and phylogenomics of complete chloroplast genomes sheds light on the putatively extinct-in-the-wild Solanum ensifolium (Solanaceae). BMC Plant Biol 25, 320 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-06338-8

data regenerated on Wed, 14 May 2025 10:30:12 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Solanum ensifolium

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W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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