Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Solanum seaforthianum
Common name
Brazilian Nightshade, Climbing Nightshade
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Weed of forest, urban bushland, roadsides, disturbed sites, and near streams. Mostly in the Sydney area and north from there. Sometimes farther south.
Notes
Scrambling shrub or climber to 5 m high, or sprawling. Young stems sparsely hairy, becoming hairless. Fruit fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–15 cm long, 30–110 mm wide, margins deeply lobed or compound, surfaces green, hairless except for hairs on the margins. Flowers mauve to blue, purple, or violet, 20–30 mm in diameter, star-shaped, with 5 deeply incised lobes, in 10–50-flowered clusters. Flowering chiefly spring and autumn. Fruit bright red, glossy, 8–12 mm in diameter.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~seaforthianum (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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