Description
Solanum laciniatum is a lovely fast growing, evergreen, New Zealand shrub with showy often 3 pronged deep green leaves. Clusters of violet blue trumpet shaped flowers are produced over a long period from summer to autumn, followed by bright orange pheasant’s egg like fruits which hang in bunches from the branches right into early winter. Solanum laciniatum can reach up to 2 or more metres in one season especially when given a sunny position and well-drained soil. Hardy in milder locations, this small shrub may stay in the ground but in colder areas, cuttings should be taken and grown on for the following year.
A fantastic jungly exotic foliage and flowering plant known in New Zealand as the Kangaroo apple. It’s worth noting that although the ripe fruits are edible though not what I’d call tasty all other parts of the plant are poisonous including the unripe fruits.
alan.cooper2019 –
Excellent quality plant,carrying lots of unripe fruit,
I feel it’s a bit late to plant out but will overwinter and take cuttings and ” brucie bonus” seed as well.can’t go wrong.Well done Big Plants.
W.Davies (verified owner) –
More great plants arrived in excellent condition and will add yet more of an exotic theme to our garden keep up the great work.