Solanum boreale — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Root

The root is eaten cooked.

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant.

North America, USA,

Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, St Vincent

How to Identify

A perennial with hermaphroditic insect-pollinated flowers. Grows in well-drained light sandy, medium loamy, or heavy clay soils across mildly acidic to mildly alkaline pH levels. Demands full sun exposure and consistently moist conditions.

How to Grow

Propagation: Seed - sow early spring in a warm greenhouse. Prick out seedlings into a fairly rich compost as soon as they are large enough to handle and grow on quickly. Plant out after the last expected frosts. Division. Harvest tubers in autumn after top-growth has been cut back by frost. Store in a cool, frost-free place over winter and replant in April.

Medicinal Uses

None known.

Other Uses

None known.

Wikipedia

A perennial with hermaphroditic insect-pollinated flowers. Grows in well-drained light sandy, medium loamy, or heavy clay soils across mildly acidic to mildly alkaline pH levels. Demands full sun exposure and consistently moist conditions.

Notes

There are about 1400 Solanum species.

References (4)

Beckstrom-Sternberg, Stephen M., and James A. Duke. "The Foodplant Database." http://probe.nalusda.gov:8300/cgi-bin/browse/foodplantdb.(ACEDB version 4.0 - data version July 1994)
Plants for a Future database, The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0NG, UK. http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11:459. 1912
Saunders, C.F., 1948, Edible and Useful Wild Plants. Dover. New York. p 9