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Collection of Jaltomata darcyana (Solanaceae), previously unrecorded in cultivation, from a home garden in Chicago, IL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2019

John Taylor Open the ORCID record for John Taylor [Opens in a new window]  and
Thomas Mione Open the ORCID record for Thomas Mione [Opens in a new window]
John Taylor*
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences & Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI02881, USA
Thomas Mione
Affiliation:
Biology Department, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT06053, USA
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Author for correspondence: John Taylor, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Evidence has been slowly accumulating that the urban home gardens of immigrants or transnational migrants in the USA conserve food plant diversity with roots in the developing world. Published species lists for home gardens indicate that, at least at the species level, this diversity is not novel but consists of widely grown, culturally important plant species that are also available through the horticultural trade. In 2018, we returned to the home garden of a Mexican-origin household in Chicago and confirmed the identity of a plant provisionally identified as Jaltomata darcyana during an earlier inventory of the garden. A recently named species of Central America, J. darcyana has not been previously recorded in cultivation. Collection of this species from a Chicago garden suggests that urban gardens may harbor other novel species awaiting documentation by urban ecologists and botanists.

Keywords

BiodiversityChicagoethnobotanyhome gardenJaltomataurban agriculture
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From the Field
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Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. 490 - 492
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