Solanum L.

Corolla violet or blue to white Solanum
Prickles absent
Corolla less than 12 mm diam., white to pale violet. Mature berry globular
Stellate hairs forming a dense soft tomentum on all parts. Leaves ovate to narrow-ovate, acuminate, velutinous, 8–20 cm long; the young axillary leaves semi-orbicular, recurved, resembling stipules. Flowers in dense pedunculate cymes. Corolla pale blue or whitish. Mature berry yellowish, c. 12 mm diam. Coast. Weed of waste places; margins of RF; WSF. Introd. from trop. Asia. Fl. autumn–spring. Wild Tobacco Bush Solanum mauritianum