Solanum sessiliflorum (cocona)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solanum sessiliflorum, photographed by rebecca bachman — fig. a rebecca bachman, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 204381640

Solanum sessiliflorum, photographed by Cajá-manga — fig. b Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161637308

Solanum sessiliflorum, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31072426

Solanum sessiliflorum, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal — fig. d Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83009278

Solanum sessiliflorum, photographed by Jared Shorma — fig. g Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147316388

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Native distribution of Solanum sessiliflorum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Brazil North	BZN	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia	CLM
Costa Rica	COS
Ecuador	ECU
French Guiana	FRG
Nicaragua	NIC
Panamá	PAN
Peru	PER
Suriname	SUR
Venezuela	VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 184 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	14.1 °C	21.0 °C	23.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	26.6 °C	29.4 °C	33.8 °C
Annual rainfall	1,666 mm	3,088 mm	4,958 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	69 mm	360 mm	858 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 184 research-grade observations of Solanum sessiliflorum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Solanum alibile R.E.Schult.
Solanum arecunarum Pittier
Solanum georgicum R.E.Schult.
Solanum sessiliflorum var. georgicum (R.E.Schult.) Whalen
Solanum sessiliflorum var. sessiliflorum
Solanum topiro Dunal
Solanum topiro var. georgicum (R.E.Schult.) Heiser
Solanum topiro var. topiro

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.