The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Solanum baretiae is a scrambling Andean vine in the nightshade family, native to southern Ecuador and northwestern Peru, where it grows at 1,500 to 3,200 m. It is rarely grown in gardens, and it is best treated like a cool-climate potato relative.
Solanum baretiae is a species of flowering plant in the genus Solanum, a member of the nightshade family that includes the potato and the tomato. It belongs to the section Anarrhichomenum and has similarities to Solanum chimborazense. The plant is found in the Andes in southern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It was described by American botanist Eric J. Tepe in 2012 and named after Jeanne Baret, a French botanist who was the first woman to circumnavigate the world, disguised as a man and as assistant of Philibert Commerson. The plant occurs in a variety of habitats; its conservation status is classified as least concern.
The plant occurs in the Andes at elevations between 1,500–3,200 m (4,900–10,500 ft). It is found in the Cajamarca, La Libertad, and Lambayeque departments of northwestern Peru as well as in the Loja and Tungurahua provinces of southern Ecuador. It occurs in a variety of habitats including forests, shrublands and pasturelands. The collection sites typically have dry seasons. The geographic range is broad, but the elevation range is fairly narrow.
Nightshade · Dwarf Tamarillo · Solanum acaule · Solanum acerifolium · Sodaapple nightshade · Dutch Eggplant · Solanum adenophorum · Solanum adoxum · Sonoita nightshade · Ethiopian nightshade · Solanum africanum · Solanum agnewiorum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Solanum baretiae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
