Solanum elaeagnifolium, Cav.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 199

15. S. elaeagnifolium Cav. , Icon. Descr. 3: 22 (1795).

Perennial herb or dwarf shrub with dense, whitish, stellate tomentum, usually with scattered, inconspicuous, usually reddish prickles on stem, mature leaves and calyx; stem 30-50 cmor more, erect, sparingly branched. Leaves 4-10(-16) x l-2-5(-4) cm, linear- to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, rounded or truncate at base, entire to shallowly sinuate; petiole 5-20 mm. Cyme 1 - to 5- flowered, solitary, extra-axillary; peduncle 5-20 mm. Calyx 5-7 mm, slightly accrescent, patent in fruit; lobes 2-4 mm, linear. Corolla 25-35(-40) mm in diameter, orbicular, purplish. Anthers 7-9 mm, yellow. Berry 10-13 mm in diameter, globose,dry, yellow. Locally naturalized in Greece. [Gr.] (Temperate South America.)