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 long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in groups of five to twelve on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long but elongating to by the fruiting stage. The sepals form a bell-shaped tube long with five lobes. The petals are pale yellow to greenish, long and joined at the base with spreading, star-like lobes and there are ten to fifteen stamens. The edible[1] fruit also known as cuatomate is a berry that is green at first, later turning orange.[2]
This species was first formally described in 1837 by Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini in Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.[3]
Solanum glaucescens is endemic to Mexico where it grows in forest, and has been introduced to Cuba.