| Accepted name: |
Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn. |
| Synonym(s): |
-Atropa physalodes L.
-Physalodes peruvianum Kuntze
-Physalodes physalodes (L.) Britton
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| English names: |
Apple-of-Peru
Physalis-like Apple-of-Peru
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| French names: |
Nicandre faux-coqueret
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
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| OPL Code: |
HNICPH
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
A |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
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| Distribution: |
-
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Microhabitat: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Frequently cultivated as an ornamental; escaped and naturalized pantropically and subtropically. In Peru rarely cultivated as a medicinal plant, but commonly used so in China, also for the preparation of a gelatinous beverage from the seeds(1). |
| Key Characters: |
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