Hind's Nightshade
Solanum hindsianum
Photographed on rocky outcropping at Cholla Bay, Sonora, Mexico. Feb. 2017.
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SHRUB: A woody plant, often with a single main trunk that branches freely near the base.
Height is one or 2 meters.
FLOWERS: The showy purple flowers bear the usual five, yellow stamens. Flowers are large.
RANGE: Found in the desert areas of Sonora, Mexico and in only a few isolated locations north of the border.
LEAVES: The elliptical to triangular leaves as well as the young stems are silvery-gray and thickened, leathery.
FRUIT: Globular berries.
UNARMED: No spines.