Solanum acaule

'Wild Andean Potato'

An ornamental low plant which creates profusion of lovely blue flowers and golden fruits later. Found in alpine meadows, roadsides, walls, drainage ditches, cultivated fields, etc. at altitude 2600 - 4650 meters (8666-15500 ft). Native to Peru, Bolivia, and N.W. Argentina.

USES:

The small white delicious tubers are edible when cooked.

GROWING INFORMATION:

The seeds should be sown surface in pots in a warm light place and replanted outside after last frosts. Proved frost hardy for me last winter. But I would still mulch to be on the save side.

HARVESTED: 2022

 

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