Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Solanum laxum
Potato Climber, Jasmine Nightshade
Solanaceae
Garden escape. Coastal.
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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