Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Solanum amblymerum

Common name

A nightshade

Family

Solanaceae

Where found

Forest. Blue Mountains and north.

Notes

Shrub to 1.6 m high, stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Prickles scattered on branches, leaves, and flower stalks, largely absent elsewhere. Fruit fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–11 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, upper surface green and sparsely stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), often 'wrinkled', lower surface grey-white or yellowish, densely stellate-hairy, margins entire or wavy. Juvenile leaves to 14 cm long, shallowly lobed towards the base. Flowers purple, 24–30 mm in diameter, tubular, with a short tube and 5 lobes. Flowers in 3–6-flowered clusters. Flowering: Chiefly spring–summer. Fruit pale green, 11–16 mm in diameter, roundish.  

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~amblymerum (accessed 7 February, 2021)