Solanum indicum
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Solanum indicum, Linn. A much-branched prickly under-shrub sometimes reaching a height of 8 ft., densely clothed when young with stellate tomentum, the prickles compressed, stout, and sometimes recurved: lvs. ovate, sinuate or lobed, 3-6 in. long and 1-4 in. broad, stellate woolly beneath and prickly along the nerves: racemes lateral, many-fld.; fls. blue, calyx-lobes in fl. triangular, acute, very woolly, unarmed, or with slender straight spines, these becoming stronger in fr., corolla 3/4-l in. diam., lobes broadly triangular, tomentose without, less so within: berry yellow or scarlet, glabrous, about 1/2 in. diam. Very common in Trop. India and China, Malaya, and the Philippines. Doubtfully in the American trade. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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