some solanum morphology

mostly because it's my blog...the first photo is of a bloom on a blue shetland potato plant...the second is carolina horse nettle...the third is blue shetalnd leaves and the fourth carolina horse nettle...i would suppose that the blue shetland is a less "improved" variety of spud mostly because it resembles the wild solanum plant reasonably closely...

this red pontiac at the community garden is an "improved" variety that is grown commercially...it has broader leaves that almost completely lack the rounded serrations on the other two plant's leaves...and, since it's my blog, you didn't think you were getting away without seeing some teosinte, did you?

solanum in the garden

i hadn't been tot he community garden in a few days...life has been militating against a trip but it relented a bit this morning so i went...the fist thing i found was a failure...the replacement tesointe has died ( first photo )....so even though it is late i believe i will germinate a replacement and keep trying...the other plant has deployed a fourth leaf and seems happy enough ( second photo )...and the rest of the bed seems to be doing well...the egyptian walking onion ( third photo ) is almost two feet tall and the aerial bulb is coming along...the spuds ( fourth ) are looking robust and there is an ear of rye ( fifth ) racing to finish before it is subsumed by the growing jerusalem artichokes ( sixth )...i looked in on my government spuds this morning and found the time to plant had arrived ( another trigger for a trip ) so i went and planted five more spuds..a dark red ( seventh ) which is not a government, rather a locally procured seed potato...one from accession bs286 ( eighth ) ..a blue shetland ( ninth )...one from accession gs427...and an early blue ( tenth )...finally i deiscovered some carolina horsenettle growing in the old biology club bed...i took some home..more on that in the next post.