Solanum vescum

Erect or spreading shrub to 2 m high, green, virtually glabrous except for minute simple and glandular hairs on young growth and flowers; prickles absent. Leaves lobed or entire, apex acute, base attenuate, concolorous, glabrous; lobed leaves broad-ovate, 10–50 cm long; lobes deep, mostly 5–10 cm long, 0.8–1.2 cm wide; petiole to 3 cm long; entire leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly 5–15 cm long, 0.5–1.3 cm wide; petiole short or absent, often decurrent as a narrow wing. Inflorescences simple or forked at base, many-flowered; primary peduncle 0–7 cm long. Flowers on pedicels 2–3 cm long, elongating to 3–5 cm in fruit; calyx 3–5 mm long, lobes triangular, 2–3 mm long; corolla more or less rotate, usually 35–40 mm diam., violet; anthers 3–4 mm long. Berry globose to ovoid, 20–25 mm diam., greenish; seeds 2–3 mm long, grey-brown; stone-cell granules 1–2(–3) mm long. Flowers mostly spring and summer.