SOLANACEAE
Solanum dimidiatum
Common Names: Western Horse Nettle, Potato-weed
five blue-purple petals - corolla 2.7 to 5cm across fully open | the anthers converge around the style but are not fused |
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young fruits--these fruits, even though they look like tomatoes (which are in this genus as well), are deadly poisonous | mature fruits |
leaves--the leaves of this species are wider than those of Solanum eleagnifolium | leaf underside--the undersides in this species are green instead of grey, as they are in S. eleagnifolium |
Can you distinguish the male and female reproductive parts? |