{"id":10734,"date":"2010-12-07T13:19:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=10734"},"modified":"2010-12-07T13:19:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:19:48","slug":"winter-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=10734","title":{"rendered":"Winter Whites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>The gift of Solanum marginatum from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondnaturegardendesign.com\/\">Dustin<\/a> opened a chilly-looking bloom yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/126morn002.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> For a solanum from Abyssinia, the White-Edged Nightshade really knows how to dress for winter.<\/p>\n<p>(Labeled from the grower as S. marginata, but my trusty Hortus Third says S. marginatum.<br \/>\nNot many references to its use as an ornamental, but lots of treatises on its pharmaceutical importance.) <\/p>\n<p>And what a handy chart from the <a href=\"http:\/\/plants.usda.gov\/java\/profile?symbol=SOMA\">USDA<\/a> on this solanum&#8217;s place in the plant hierarchy:<\/p>\n<p>Kingdom \t        Plantae \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Plants<br \/>\nSubkingdom \tTracheobionta \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Vascular plants<br \/>\nSuperdivision \tSpermatophyta \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Seed plants<br \/>\nDivision \t        Magnoliophyta \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Flowering plants<br \/>\nClass \t                Magnoliopsida \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dicotyledons<br \/>\nSubclass \t        Asteridae<br \/>\nOrder \t        Solanales<br \/>\nFamily \t        Solanaceae \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Potato family<br \/>\nGenus \t        Solanum L. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c nightshade<br \/>\nSpecies \t        Solanum marginatum L. f. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c purple African nightshade<\/p>\n<p>The USDA considers this plant a noxious weed in California.  If I was less urban and more rural, I&#8217;d be concerned.  Still, I won&#8217;t be freely passing seedlings, if any, of this one around in California.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gift of Solanum marginatum from Dustin opened a chilly-looking bloom yesterday. For a solanum from Abyssinia, the White-Edged Nightshade really knows how to dress for winter. (Labeled from the grower as S. marginata, but my trusty Hortus Third says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=10734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[36],"tags":[109,396,397,110,395],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-2N8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10755,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions\/10755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}