Solanum laciniatum

Erect shrub to 3 m high, green, often with purplish stems, glabrous except for minute glandular hairs on young growth; prickles absent. Leaves lobed or entire, apex acuminate, base attenuate, concolorous, usually glabrous; lobed leaves broad-ovate, 9–38 cm long; lobes deep, 2–13 cm long, 0.3–2 cm wide; petiole 1–4 cm long; entire leaves lanceolate, 5–20 cm long, 1–4 cm wide; petiole 0.5–1 cm long. Inflorescences simple or forked at base, to 10-flowered; primary peduncle 0–4 cm long. Flowers on pedicels 1.5–3 cm long; calyx 4–6 mm long, lobes triangular, 2–3 mm long, enlarging slightly in fruit; corolla rotate, 30–50 mm diam., deep purplish-blue, lobes notched; anthers 3–4 mm long. Berry ovoid to ellipsoid, 15–20 mm diam., yellow to orange-yellow; seeds 2–2.5 mm long, reddish-brown; stone-cell granules mostly 2–2.5 mm long Flowers mostly spring and summer.