Shrub, up to 1.5 m tall, very densely covered with yellow-brown, stellate hairs, and bearing slender, straight prickles, up to 10 mm long. Leaves petiolate, elliptic, up to 80 mm long, margins sinuate, midvein prominent, rarely spiny. Flowers few in clusters, up to 20 mm diam., violet inside. Ripe berries orange to red, shiny, 10-20 mm diam.
Spiny shrub, 0.45-6.00 m high. Spines straight or slightly curved. Leaves sinuate or rarely entire, clothed with yellowish stellate hairs. Inflorescence an umbellate few-flowered cyme. Corolla 12 mm in diameter. Fruit dull orange. Flowers purple, blue.
Yellowish green, densely felted shrub to 1 m; spines to 12 mm, straight or slightly curved. Leaves ovate, sinuate, rarely spiny, to 8 cm. Flowers few in clusters, mauve or purple, to 15 mm long. Berries orange, to 20 mm.
Spiny shrub, up to 0.6 m high. Spines straight. Leaves very shallowly sinuate, stellate-hairy. Flowers 3-5 together. Corolla 12 mm or less in diameter, lobes lanceolate, acuminate. Fruits red. Flowers mauve.
Softly hairy shrublet to 60 cm; spines to 5 mm long, straight. Leaves ovate, sinuate, rarely spiny, to 5 cm long. Flowers few in clusters, mauve to violet, to 5 mm diam. Berries orange-red, to 10 mm diam.
Stems usually more prickly than typical variety. Leaves smaller. Indumentum much sparser. Flowers up to 10 mm in diam., white to purple. Flowering time Sept.-Mar. Fruit up to 10 mm in diam.