Jaltomata procumbens: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Solanales
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Genus
- Jaltomata
- Species
- Jaltomata procumbens
- Scientific Name
- Jaltomata procumbens
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Jaltomata procumbens
Jaltomata procumbens, the creeping false holly, is a plant species native to Arizona, USA, Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. It grows as a weed in agricultural fields and other disturbed locations, but in many places the people protect it because of the edible fruits it produces.
Jaltomata procumbens is a spreading, trailing to ascending herb forming many shoots from a single root. Leaves are broadly lanceolate, up to 20 cm long, dark green. Flowers are rotate, pale yellow-green with darker green spots toward the center. Berries are dark purple, spherical, about 1 cm in diameter, with a strong scent resembling that of grapes (Vitis spp.).
...Jaltomata procumbens in languages:
- English
- creeping false-holly
- Russian
- Сараха съедобная
- Swedish
- jaltomata
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Jaltomata aijana
- Jaltomata alviteziana
- Jaltomata andagarae
- Jaltomata andersonii
- Jaltomata angasmarcae
- Jaltomata anteropilosa
- Jaltomata antillana
- Jaltomata aricapampae
- Jaltomata aspera
- Jaltomata athahuallpae
- Jaltomata atiquipa
- Jaltomata auriculata
- Jaltomata aypatensis
- Jaltomata bernardelloana
- Jaltomata bicolor
- Jaltomata biflora
- Jaltomata bohsiana
- Jaltomata cajacayensis
- Jaltomata cajamarca
- Jaltomata calliantha
- Jaltomata chihuahuensis
- Jaltomata chotanae
- Jaltomata confinis
- Jaltomata contorta
- Jaltomata contumacensis
- Jaltomata cuyasensis
- Jaltomata darcyana
- Jaltomata dendroidea
- Jaltomata dentata
- Jaltomata diversa
- Jaltomata estilopilosa
- Jaltomata glomeruliflora
- Jaltomata grandibaccata
- Jaltomata grandiflora
- Jaltomata herrerae
- Jaltomata huancabambae
- Jaltomata hunzikeri
- Jaltomata incahuasina
- Jaltomata lanata
- Jaltomata leivae
- Jaltomata lezamae
- Jaltomata lojae
- Jaltomata lomana
- Jaltomata mionei
- Jaltomata neei
- Jaltomata nigricolor
- Jaltomata nitida
- Jaltomata oppositifolia
- Jaltomata pallascana
- Jaltomata paneroi
- Jaltomata parviflora
- Jaltomata pauciseminata
- Jaltomata pilosissima
- Jaltomata procumbens
- Jaltomata propinqua
- Jaltomata quipuscoae
- Jaltomata repandidentata
- Jaltomata sagastegui
- Jaltomata salpoensis
- Jaltomata sanchez-vegae
- Jaltomata sanctae-martae
- Jaltomata sinuosa
- Jaltomata spooneri
- Jaltomata truxillana
- Jaltomata umbellata
- Jaltomata ventricosa
- Jaltomata viridiflora
- Jaltomata weberbaueri
- Jaltomata werffii
- Jaltomata yacheri
- Jaltomata yungayensis
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