Solanum(potatoes & eggplants)

A huge genus containing at least 1700 species of herbs, shrubs, vines, or trees with ornamental and argricultural importance

Potato plant (Solanum tuberosum) illustration

Potatoes in an open market

An eggplant in a garden

Eggplants in an open market

Solanum elaeagnifolium

Solanum nodiflorum

Photographs

Slide collection for the California Floristics course offered through the section of Plant Biology at the University of California at Davis

Group of eggplants: Ellen Dean Biology Herberium Curator for section of Plant Biology at the University of California at Davis

Single eggplant: The American Horticulture Society: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening. 1982. The American Horitcultural Society, Mount Vernon, Virginia

To return to the Solanceace cladogram


Introduction | Flowers&Fruit | Roots | Stems | Leaves
© Thomas L. Rost 1996
Section of Plant Biology Division of Biological Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS