Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum neorossii is a species found in northern Argentina, close to the Bolivian border. It was first described in 1983 from materials collected in 1966 (Hawkes 1983). The […]
Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum multiinterruptum is a wild potato species from northern Peru. Plants to about three and a half feet tall. Flowers blue/purple or white. Berries small and ovoid. The […]
Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum mochiquense is a lowland Peruvian species of relatively limited distribution. (It is not lost on me that the species is named for a location in Ecuador but […]
Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum minutifoliolum is a species of small distribution in central Ecuador, growing at elevations of 8,200 to 9,800 feet (2500 to 3000 m). Plants grow to about three […]
Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum microdontum is primarily a Bolivian species, extending into northern Argentina. Plants up to three feet tall. Stolons three feet long or more. Tubers small, less than an […]
Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum medians is a wild potato species native to central and southern Peru, just barely reaching into Chile. Plants reach about two feet tall. Flowers purple. Berries large, […]
Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum malmeanum is a wild potato from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Very little has been written about this species, due in part to the fact that it […]
Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum lobbianum is a species of very small distribution in Ecuador and possibly Colombia. Tubers small and whitish. The specific epithet, lobbianum, honors William Lobb, a British plant […]
Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum limbaniense (limbaniense for the Limbani region of the Sandia province of Peru) is a species with a small distribution in southern Peru, very near to the Bolivian […]
Return to Wild Potato Index Purchase seeds or tubers of Common Names Code Synonyms Clade Series Ploidy EBN Tuberization Photoperiod Self-compatibility Nuclear Genome Cytoplasmic Genome Citation Description Solanum lignicaule is a species with a small distribution in southern Peru. The specific epithet, lignicaule, means “woody stem,” referring to the tendency of the lowest part of […]