Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Solanum radicans

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles, Cessnock

Leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles, Cessnock

Common name

Cusmayllo

Family

Solanaceae

Where found

Weed of farming and agricultural land. East and north of Goulburn, mostly north of the Hume Highway. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Introduced annual or perennial herb, sprawling, stems sometimes to 2 m long, frequently rooting at the nodes. Fruit fleshy. Stems hairless to sparsely hairy, slightly sticky. Leaves alternating along the stems, 3–5 cm long, 10–20 mm wide, deeply 3-lobed, both surfaces almost hairless. Flowers white, to 10 mm in diameter, star-shaped, with 5 lobes. Flowers in 4-10 flowered clusters. Flowering: spring–autumn. Berry dull yellow-green, round, 4–5 mm in diameter.

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