Family - Indian Society of Weed Science

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Armed shrub.
Common Name : Turkey berry
Family : Solanaceae
Usually 2 or 3 m in height and 2 cm in basal
diameter, but may reach 5 m in height and 8 cm
in basal diameter. The spines are short and
slightly curved and vary from thick
throughout the plant including the leaf midrib
to entirely absent.
Opposite or one per node, broadly ovate with
the border entire or deeply lobed.
White, tubular with 5 pointed lobes, and
grouped in corymbiform cymes.
Berries that grow in clusters of tiny green
spheres, 1 cm in diameter, that look like green
peas, become yellow when fully ripe.
Numerous, flat, round, brown.
Solanum torvum Sw.
Weed ID Manual 295