Enchylaena tomentosa R.Br.

Lax shrub c. 1 m high, densely woolly with short curled hairs to shortly villous or glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Leaves slender, terete or fusiform, 7–20 mm long. Perianth tube glabrous; lobes glabrous or pubescent, woolly-ciliate. Fruiting perianth depressed-globular, c. 5 mm diam., green, yellow, or red, drying black; apex flat or deeply sunken in centre, glabrous or woolly; wing absent or represented by an incurved undulate corona up to 1 mm high.

A tropical to warm temperate plant. It grows in semi-desert and arid regions. It is on sandy or calcareous soils. They can grow on slightly salty coastal soils. It is drought and frost tolerant. It can grow in arid places.

The young leaves can be cooked and used as a vegetable. The fruit are sweet and edible. They can also be dried and then soaked and eaten.

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings.