DescriptionLatua pubiflora fallen fruit broad calyx Logan.jpg
English: Latua pubiflora (Griseb.)Baillon (family: Solanaceae): fallen fruit positioned with pedicel uppermost to show characteristic broad, spreading calyx lobes.
Single yellow, tomato-like fruit of a large, mature specimen of this rare Chilean endemic growing in the Chilean section of Scotland's Logan Botanic Garden, near Stranraer. Fruit over-ripe and showing evidence of mollusc and insect damage (holes). Note distinctive broad, flat calyx lobes - quite unlike the narrow ones of the tomato, which the fruit of L. pubiflora otherwise resembles. Another difference is the dark brown or black seeds of Latua (not visible in image), compared with the familiar, pale seeds of the tomato.
Fruit positioned on soil area with a covering of dead, brown moss.
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