Solanum stramoniifolium Jacq.

A herb or shrub. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows about 1.5 m high. It can have spines. Forms without spines have been selected. The leaves are simple and alternate. They are broadly oval and 20 cm long by 12 cm wide and they can have lobes. The fruit are round and 2 cm across. The fruit are red. They are slightly hairy. There are several seeds.

Savannah, ecotones between forest and savannah, forest openings, along riverbanks; in open sun or partial shade; often as a weed in clearings, pastures, fields, secondary thickets, trailsides, round human habitations; at elevations to 600 metres.

The fruit are used to make chilli sauce. The fruit are eaten after the brown hairs are rubbed off.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.