Blue Potato Bush

The blue potato bush.

Blue potato bush. Leaves color green in elliptic shape. Blue potato bush grow and care shrub of the genus Lycianthes also known as Lycianthes rantonnetii Blue potato bush short perennial evergreen annual used as ornamental hedge plant can grow in tropics subtropics mediterranean desert or temperate climate and growing in hardiness zone 8. Lycianthes rantonnetii Blue Potato Bush is an evergreen shrub boasting a nearly non-stop display of lightly fragrant purple-blue flowers adorned with bright golden centers.

Blue potato bush is hardy in Sunset climate zones 12 13 and 15 to 27. Borne on slender sprawling stems the cup-shaped blossoms are profuse throughout warm weather and give way to showy red berries. Lycianthes rantonnetii the blue potato bush or Paraguay nightshade is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae native to South America.

The foliage of oval bright green leaves will remain on the plant in mild winter areas. Blue Potato Bush produces an abundance of charming blue flowers over a long season. Growing to about 6 ft 18 m tall and broad it is a rounded evergreen shrub with a somewhat lax habit.

The blue potato bush is classified under the nightshade family of plants which also include eggplants and tomatoes. These are followed by red berries. Or grow in pots watering freely when in growth.

Heirloom and hybrid purple potato varieties range from solid purple to a mixture of purple and white. This plant develops bluish-purple blooms with yellow middles during summer and continues to flower into fall. Regardless of the cultivar purple and blue potato varieties contain the valuable antioxidant called anthocyanin.

Its very showy fragrant easy to grow and a magnet for bees and hummingbirds. Rather plant quite a few of them between other large shrubs in the background of a large bed or in a row against a wire fence or palisade boundary. Blue Potato Bush Overview.