| Scientific Name: | Lycianthes rantonnetii |
| Common Name: | blue potato bush |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Ovate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed, Sinuate |
| Flowers: | White, Yellow, Blue, Violet, Purple, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Red, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves elliptic, blades 3-6(-10)cm long x 2-5cm wide, margin entire, base cuneate, apex acute or acuminate; petiole 0.5-1.5cm long, winged in upper part by extension of lamina base; flowers funnelform, 2-3cm wide, axillary, singluar or in clusters of 2-5, pedicels 15-25mm long, calyx 4-5mm long, most bluish with yellow centres; berries red-black, 1-2cm wide. | |