Fruit of Solanum nigrum Scientific name: Solanum nigrum Linn.

English name: Dragon Mallow, Black Nightshade

Family name: Solanaceae

Annual herbs, 30-100 cm tall. Stem erect, much branched. Leaves ovate, 2.5-10 centimeters long, 1.5-3 centimeters wide, apically acute, entire or irregularly undulate coarsely toothed, base cuneate, tapering into a petiole; petiole up to 2 centimeters long. Inflorescences short scorpioid or subumbellate, lateral or extra-axillary, with 4-10 flowers, white, minute; peduncle 1-2.5 cm long, petiole ca. 1 cm; calyx cup-shaped, green, 5-lobed; corolla rotate, lobes ovate-triangular, ca. 3 cm; stamens 5; ovary ovate, white tomentose below middle of style. Berry globose, ca. 8 mm in diam., black when ripe; seeds subovoid, compressed. Flowering and fruiting September-October.

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