*Nicandra physalodes (Linnaeus) Gaertner. Common name: Apple-of-Peru, Shoo-fly-plant. Phenology: Jul-Sep (-Jun); Aug-Oct (-Jul). Habitat: Disturbed places, such as cultivated fields and roadsides. Distribution: Native of Peru.
Origin/Endemic status: South America
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, Fl6, FNA14, G, GrPl, Il, K4, Mi, Mo3, NE, NY, Pa, RAB, Tat, Tn, Va, W, WH3, WV; = Physalodes physalodes (L.) Britton — S; Atropa physalodes Linnaeus. Basionym: Atropa physalodes L. 1753
Links to other floras: = Nicandra physalodes - FNA14
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Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect annual of disturbed places, such as cultivated fields and roadsides. Native of Peru.
Stems: Stems stout, angled or distinctly ridged, branched above, succulent, mostly smooth.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, ascending, petiolate, oval or lance-shaped, 1 1/2-8 in. long, coarsely and unevenly toothed or scalloped and mostly smooth.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers solitary in axils of upper leaves, on short, erect or nodding stalks; light blue to lavender, 1-1 1/2 in. wide, trumpet-shaped with 5 shallow lobes, white inside the throat where there are 5 stamens and a single pistil. The calyx is prominently 5-lobed and 5-angled.
Fruits: Fruit a round, dry berry enclosed in the persistent calyx.
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Height: 2-5 ft.
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description: Erect annual of disturbed places, such as cultivated fields and roadsides. Native of Peru.
stems: Stems stout, angled or distinctly ridged, branched above, succulent, mostly smooth.
leaves: Leaves alternate, ascending, petiolate, oval or lance-shaped, 1 1/2-8 in. long, coarsely and unevenly toothed or scalloped and mostly smooth.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers solitary in axils of upper leaves, on short, erect or nodding stalks; light blue to lavender, 1-1 1/2 in. wide, trumpet-shaped with 5 shallow lobes, white inside the throat where there are 5 stamens and a single pistil. The calyx is prominently 5-lobed and 5-angled.
fruits: Fruit a round, dry berry enclosed in the persistent calyx.
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