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What is my mystery plant?
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katemercer 5 (
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Wed, Jul 9, 14 at 16:09
| This was given to me along with some tomatoes and cabbage plants by a friend who started them from seeds. He thought they might be an Asian eggplant variety but I am having my doubts about that. I could use the room for something else if it is not a desirable vegetable. Any thoughts?? |
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RE: What is my mystery plant?
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Interesting. I can think of two possibilities as my eyes are not as good as they used to be.
1. A nightshade maybe Garden Huckleberry. Solanum nigrum guineense or solanum americanum
2. Thai Green Pea eggplant, Solanum torvum |
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| From the shape of leaves, i vote for eggplant too. Probably a Thai variety. |
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| Can we see the whole plant? And some sense of scale? Looks like black nightshade from what I can see but then I don't know anything about Asian eggplant varieties. The leaves appear ovate and images of S torvum are jagged. |
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| Here's a photo of the whole plant. I thought eggplant had prickly leaves or stems - these are smooth. The plant is several feet high and branching out. |
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| Hmmm, I don't know eggplants, but it doesn't look like my local black nightshade, the fruits are too large and the cluster is too big. For whatever that's worth. |
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| it kind of looks like a pepper plant that came from really unstable seeds, cut one of the fruits open and give er a look |
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| How big are the fruits. It's clearly a nightshade. Not familiar with thai eggplants, but the leaves don't look like any eggplant I'm familiar with. I'm thinking garden huckleberry (which is not a huckleberry). But how large are the fruits getting? |
Here is a link that might be useful: garden huckleberry images
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| I too am leaning towards garden huckleberry. |
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| The foliage and flowers look exactly like sunberry/wonderberry, although your plant is clearly bigger. Definitely a solanum of some type. The images of garden huckleberry look smaller as well, I think, though I could be wrong. |
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| Wonderberry, Sunberry, Garden Huckleberry are all names for the same plant. I tend to lean toward that one also. |
RE: What is my mystery plant?
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| I am thinking also that it is garden huckleberry now that I have info to look up. I guess I can leave the fruits go until almost fall before I use them. Now I have to look up recipes!! Thanks all! |
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