Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Solanum laxum
Common name
Potato Climber, Jasmine Nightshade
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Garden escape. Coastal.
Notes
Introduced perennial climber, mostly hairless. Fruit fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes with 2 small leaves at the base of a single leaf. Leaves 3–5 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, usually simple, mostly green and hairless, tips pointed. Juvenile leaves to 7 cm long and 60 mm wide, deeply lobed. Flowers white or pale blue, about 20 mm in diameter, broadly tubular with 5 lobes. Flowers in branched clusters of about 20 flowers. Flowering: chiefly summer–autumn. Fruit dark blue to shiny black or blackish purple, 7–9 mm in diameter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~laxum (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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