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Please, help me to idenfy this plant
« on: July 17, 2014, 08:21:48 PM »
It was a bird´s gift, left in one of my pots. The plant is 50 cm tall and produces flowers half purple half white envolved by "baloons" that don´t opens entirely. After the flower fall a small fruit appears inside the baloons and grows fast. Any idea what is it and if it´s edible by humans?











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Re: Please, help me to idenfy this plant
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2014, 09:23:44 PM »
Looks too be in the Solanaceae family to my untrained eye it looks very nightshady/tomatoish .
Many edible plants in the family but many deadly poisonous (and I mean 6ft deep not sore stomach).
I would be very very sure of my ID before I tried to eat it!
A picture of the flower would definitely help. Are those coverings similar to a goose berry like papery?
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Re: Please, help me to idenfy this plant
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2014, 10:45:22 PM »
I agree.  It looks like a solanum, or something similar.  It looks a LOT like the solanum scabrum that I grow, but the berries we get are not in the little husks.  Maybe some sort of purple ground cherry?
Do you have a local authority you can take it to?

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Re: Please, help me to idenfy this plant
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2014, 04:59:38 AM »
maby Physalis subglabrata? 

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Re: Please, help me to idenfy this plant
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2014, 05:34:40 AM »
Cassio, this is   probably Nicandra physaloides. It is an invasive plant and the fruits are not edible.

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Re: Please, help me to idenfy this plant
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2014, 05:39:39 AM »
Cassio, this is   probably Nicandra physaloides. It is an invasive plant and the fruits are not edible.
Yees it seams too!  ;D

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Re: Please, help me to idenfy this plant
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2014, 08:17:56 AM »
Bummer!  It is always so fun to find a surprise edible!
I had a friend who nurtured a vine she found in her new yard, carefully tending it and training it along her fence.
Turns out it was bindweed.  But not to worry, her thumb was so brown, she accidentally killed it...

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Re: Please, help me to idenfy this plant
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2014, 06:09:36 PM »
Cassio, this is   probably Nicandra physaloides. It is an invasive plant and the fruits are not edible.
Yees it seams too!  ;D

Yeah, I´m with you. Surelly looks a lot like that.
I´ll wait a little more to see the fruits.
Thanks!