| Scientific Name: | Solanum pseudocapsicum |
| Common Name: | Jerusalem cherry, Christmas cherry |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant, Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Sinuate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Orange, Yellow, Red, Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Usually grown as a winter fruiting decorative indoor plant; leaves glossy, dark green, most blades elliptic, 5-9(-12)cm long x 1-4cm wide, margins wavy, petioles 2-9mm long; corolla white or mauve, 0.8-1.5(-2.5) cm wide, anthers yellow and relatively large; berries round, 1-2cm wide, poisonous (caution: some may mistaken them for cherry tomatoes). | |