Solanum caripense Dunal

Herb or vine to 2 m long, climbing in thickets and trees; stem branched; twigs pilose-hirsute, the hairs when dried with a yellowish cast. Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, occasionally entire or to 7-foliolate; leaflets to 7 cm long and 4 cm broad, the terminal leaflet usually larger and the leaflets proximal to the terminal 3 often much reduced, broadly elliptical to lanceolate, acuminate apically, mostly rounded basally, hispid or sericeous on both sides, reticulate-veined beneath; petioles and petiolules hispid, the former to 6 cm long; minor leaves prominent, rotund. Inflorescence a several-flowered, open raceme or rarely a panicle,

In and on the edge of thickets, on wooded slopes and along streams, about the base of cliffs or sometimes on open slopes, at elevations of 800-3,800 metres.

The fruit are eaten raw. They can be made into preserves.

Plants can be grown from seeds.