Sticky Nightshade
Solanum sisymbriifolium
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Sticky Nightshade
Identify Sticky 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 shape: Deeply pinnatifid/lobed.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Karnataka and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Solanaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Sticky Nightshade.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Solanum sisymbriifolium
- Genus
- Solanum
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Scrub jungles in High Ranges, sometimes grown in gardens
- Habitat type
- Scrub, Cultivated
- Native to
- South America
- Found in India
- West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Deeply pinnatifid/lobedrecorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Sticky 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.
Local Names
- Bengali
- সাদা কন্টিকারি
About Sticky Nightshade
A member of the Solanaceae family, Sticky Nightshade (Solanum sisymbriifolium) is a shrub. In India it has been recorded in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya and 16 other states. It grows in scrub jungles in High Ranges, sometimes grown in gardens. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Uses
In practice it is grown for parts that are eaten and planted as an ornamental.
Solanaceae
Nightshade/Tomato family
Sticky Nightshade belongs to the Solanaceae family.
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