Solanum linnaeanum

Shrub to 1 m high, dark green, pubescent with stellate hairs and some glandular hairs; prickles to 15 mm long, yellowish, straight, abundant on most parts of plant. Leaves elliptic, mostly 4–8 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, deeply lobed, concolorous, upper surface sparsely pubescent, lower surface more densely pubescent; lobes rounded to more or less triangular, margins sinuate or further lobed; petiole 1–2 cm long. Inflorescences simple, 3–6-flowered; peduncle short or absent. Flowers on pedicels 10–15 mm long; calyx 7–8 mm long, somewhat accrescent in fruit, lobes lanceolate, 2–4 mm long; corolla rotate-stellate to pentagonal, 15–20 mm diam., pale purple-blue, lobes shortly acute-tipped; anthers 4.5–6 mm long. Berry globose, 20–35 mm diam., yellow, finally brown or black; seeds 2–3 mm long, light brown or yellowish. Flowers throughout the year.