*Solanum linnaeanum
Flowers up to 6 together with a common peduncle, in lateral racemes. Mature berry yellow 20–30 mm diam., changing to blackish. Leaves elliptic in outline, deeply obtusely pinnately lobed, 7–15 cm long. Prickles almost all stout. Corolla violet, 25–30 mm diam. Herbaceous perennial with stout spreading branches up to 1 m high. Coast. Sheltered places in forests; roadsides; creek banks. Introd. from the Mediterranean. Apple of Sodom