Solanum glaucescens

Solanum glaucescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae and is endemic to Mexico. It is a deciduous vine with narrowly oblong to egg-shaped leaves 35–90 mm long and 15–55 mm wide on a petiole 10–40 mm long. The flowers are arranged in groups of five to twelve on a peduncle 10–20 mm long, each flower on a pedicel 5–10 mm long but elongating to 30–40 mm by the fruiting stage. The sepals form a bell-shaped tube 2–4 mm long with five lobes. The petals are pale yellow to greenish, 20–40 mm long and joined at the base with spreading, star-like lobes and there are ten to fifteen stamens. The edible fruit also known as cuatomate is a berry that is green at first, later turning orange.

This species was first formally described in 1837 by Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini in Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Solanum glaucescens is endemic to Mexico where it grows in forest, and has been introduced to Cuba.