This perennial shrub to small tree has upright narrow pubescent stems and spreading branched that form a rounded crown. It has felt-like grey-green oval leaves and the violet flowers appear in a cluster from spring to summer and followed by succulent berries.

Hardiness zones 10 to 12

Solanum mauritianum is naturally found in South America growing in well drained fertile moist clay to sandy soils that are organic rich, in an open sunny position and is frost and drought tender.

Wild Tobacco Tree is not normally cultivated as an ornamental plant but is commonly regarded as a weed and invades water courses or disturbed land. It is a fast growing shrub that forms a taproot with lateral roots and is commonly found in disturbed soils along roadsides or in moist fertile margins of rainforests and gullies. ID 856

Solanum(so-LAH-num) mauritianum(ma-yoo-ree-tee-a-num)

Solanaceae (so-lan-AY-see-ee)
Potato Family