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  • COMMON NAME: Thorny Nightshade
  • ARABIC: عيون البقرة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Solanum surattense Burm .f.
  • SYNONYMS: S. xanthocarpum , S.diffusum
  • FAMILY: SOLANACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.treknature.com/gallery/Asia/India/photo162319.htm https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/File:(Solanum_surattense)_Shrub_at_Kambalakonda_03.JPG

Bright-green, prickly, diffuse, perennial herb, woody at base, up to 30 cm high. Stem branched, glabrous to stellate tomentum; prickles, up to 15 mm long, yellow, straight, shining. Leaves elliptic in outline, sinuate or subpinnatifid, obtuse or acute, hairy and with long, yellow, sharp spines on the midrib and nerves, on both surfaces. Petioles 2-5 cm long, hairy and prickly; Flowers in few-flowerd cymes or solitary. Pedicels up to 10 mm long. Calyx 6-10 mm long, hairy and prickly; campanulate; lobes linear. Corolla 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, purple-blue; lobes stellately hairy. Stamens with short filaments; anthers yellow, oblong, up to 10 mm long. Fruit a berry, globose, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, yellow when mature. Seeds many, 2 mm in diameter. 

Flowering almost throughout the year.
Gravel plains, among rocks on hillsides and mountains.
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