Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Solanum physalifolium var. nitidibaccatum
Common name
Cherry Nightshade
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Weed of cultivation. Sydney area and north. Sometimes elsewhere. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.5 m high, sprawling, hairy with glandular hairs. Fruit fleshy. Leaves alternating along the stems, mostly 4–6 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, both surfaces hairy to hairless, margins entire or shallowly lobed, tips pointed. Flowers white, 12–14 mm in diameter, star-shaped, with 5 lobes. Flowers in 2-10 flowered clusters. Flowers mostly summer. Fruit green to purplish-green; broadly oval, 5–9 mm in diameter.
Solanum styleanum in VICFLORA (accessed 24 April, 2021).
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~physalifolium (accessed 24 April, 2021)
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