Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 2547 - Solanum pyracanthum (Orange-thorned Night-shade) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 2547, Solanum pyracanthum (Orange-thorned Night-shade).

• Plate: 2547
• Latin name: Solanum pyracanthum
• Common name: Orange-thorned Night-shade
• Linnaean class / order: Pentandria / Monogynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 2547 ]

( 2547 )

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Class and Order.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cor. rotata. Antherae subcoalite, apice poro gemino dehiscentes. Bacca bilocularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
SOLANUM pyracanthum; caule aculeato fruticoso, foliis oblongis angustis sinuato-pinnatifidis tomentosis aculeatis, aculeis rectis subcoccineis. DUNAL Solanum p. 229. SOLANUM pyracanthos; caule aculeato suffruticoso, foliis oblongis acutis sinuato-pinnatifidis tomentosis, aculeis rectis subcoccineis. Lam. ill. gen. n. 2364. Poiret in Encycl. Bot. 4. p. 299. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 229. SOLANUM pyriacantha. Smith Exot. Bot. 2. p. 9. t. 64. Willd. Enum. p. 238. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 403. SOLANUM pyracanthon. Jacq. Hort. Schænb. 4. p. 36. t. 470. (a.) pedunculis calycibusque spinosis. (β.) pedunculis calycibusque inermibus. DUNAL, in his monograph of the genus SOLANUM, remarks, that the peduncles and calyces of SOLANUM pyracanthum are sometimes very thorny, and at other times quite without thorns. In our plant, these parts were unarmed, the common peduncles cernuous, the flowers smaller, with reflexed petals, without any green star, and altogether not much resembling the figure in the exotic botany of Sir JAMES E. SMITH, but more like that of JACQUIN, in his Hortus Schœnbrunensis. We have, however, very little doubt but that it is one of the various appearances of the orange-thorned Nightshade. A small

SOLANUM PYRACANTHUM. β. ORANGE-THORNED NIGHT-SHADE.

This print comes from our Curtis archive (via the Royal Horticultural Society and Wheldon & Wesley). Sold as an original historic plate - please review photos for condition.