Description: Introduced, yearlong green, annual to short-lived perennial, hairless or sparsely hairy, often purplish, spreading herb or shrub to 1.3 m tall. Leaves are ovate to lanceolate, mostly 3–8 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, often larger on young plants, margins entire or shallowly lobed; both surfaces green and hairless or sparsely pubescent. Flowerheads are cyme- or umbel-like and 4–12-flowered; peduncles are to 25 mm long, lengthening in fruit; pedicels are 5–8 mm. Calyx of 5 sepals, are 1–2 mm long. Corolla of 5 petals are deeply incised, usually 8–9 mm wide and white or flushed purple with yellow-green centre. Fruit are berries 6–9 mm wide and shiny green, turning shiny purple-black at maturity. Flowering is year-round. A variable cosmopolitan weed in disturbed habitats. Date: 11 September 2014, 09:07. Source:
Solanum americanum stem1. Author:
Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia. Camera location
31° 56′ 31.76″ S, 152° 23′ 50.46″ E View all coordinates using:
OpenStreetMap-31.942155; 152.397351.
