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Very rare casual; most frequently occurring around London.

Stace 4:

Solanum chenopodioides Lam. (S. sublobatum Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) - Tall Nightshade.

Erect perennial to 1.6m, woody at least below, with more or less appressed eglandular hairs; leaves entire to sparsely and shallowly dentate; flowers (1)3-8; corolla white; fruit as in S. nigrum but blackish-purple; (2n=24). Neophyte-naturalised; on rough ground; Guernsey since 1958, Jersey, London area since 1989, very rare casual in Britain North to South West Yorkshire; South America.

Key:

• Corolla white to purple or mauve
• Spines 0, or few and weak on stems
• Perennials with stems more or less woody below
• Stems erect to spreading; 0 or few inflorescences >10-flowered; leaves simple, entire to laciniate
• Corolla white
• Fruits purplish-black