Solanum vescum F.Muell.

Erect or spreading shrub to 2 m, green, glabrous except for minute, simple and glandular hairs on corolla, calyx apices, seedlings and young shoots; prickles absent. Lobed leaves broadly ovate; lamina 10–50 cm long, concolorous, deeply lobed; lobes mostly 5–10 cm long, 8–12 mm wide, sometimes smaller; petiole to 3 cm long. Entire leaves linear-lanceolate, the lamina 5–15 cm long, 5–13 mm wide, sometimes larger, concolorous; petiole short or absent, often decurrent as narrow wing. Inflorescence many-flowered; peduncle absent or up to 7 cm long; rachis 1–5 cm long; pedicels 2–3 cm long, becoming longer in fruit. Calyx 3–5 mm long; lobes triangular, 2–3 mm long. Corolla rotate-stellate, 35–40 mm diam., sometimes smaller, violet. Anthers 3–4 mm long. Fruiting axis to 15 cm long, the pedicels 2.5–5 cm long. Berry globular or slightly ovoid, 20–25 mm diam., greenish-ivory. Seeds 2–3 mm long, greyish-brown. Stone-cell granules 1–2(3) mm long.

Usually found in coastal andnear-coastal areas, on consolidated coastal dunes, stream banks, and margins offorest and woodland.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.