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Solanum crinitum
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Solanum crinitum

Solanum crinitum, also frequently called Solanum macranthum (common name giant star potato tree) is a medium-sized (to forty feet (twelve meters) tropical tree from Brazil belonging to the Potato family (Solanaceae) and is noteworthy for two things. First its flowers continue to grow bigger even after they open, doubling in size, and eventually becoming two inches (5 centimeters) wide. It also has the shortest lifespan of any full-sized tree. It is full-grown at age four, and

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 342643.