Shrubby Nightshade
Solanum robustum
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Shrubby Nightshade
Identify Shrubby Nightshade by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu.
- Confirm it sits within the Solanaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Shrubby Nightshade.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Solanum robustum
- Genus
- Solanum
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- PubescentrecordedCovered in short, soft hairs.“A medium shrub, the plant may grow 4 to 8 feet (1.2 – 2.4 m) with velvety leaves and stems due to dense stellate trichomes present on all faces of the plant.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Shrubby Nightshade itself; the rest are typical of the Solanaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Solanaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Shrubby Nightshade
Shrubby nightshade (Solanum robustum) is a shrub in the Solanaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu. It grows in evergreen forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Solanaceae
Nightshade/Tomato family
Shrubby Nightshade belongs to the Solanaceae family.
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