Giant Star Potato Tree Solanum macranthum 20 Seeds

 The Giant Star Potato Tree is an amazing plant with huge, oak-like leaves and large, star-like purple flowers. It is a tropical relative of the potato and it does grow into a true, arborescent form. It is like a large, tropical version of some of our garden vegetables, like the potato and the eggplant. The leaves are light green to bright green and have several deep lobes. The leaves are held horizontally or slightly pendant on the branches. It is a great foliage plant because of the large size of the leaves and their attractive color and form. What makes this tree truly special, though are the beautiful, tri-colored flowers. The flowers are similar in form to those of the garden vegetables but they are much larger. They are larger, about 2-3 inches across and they are in small clusters at the ends of the twigs. The flowers are deep violet when they open and then they change to light purple and then fade to white over a few days. This color change causes the flower clusters to be