Solanum linnaeanum dark-leaved

Solanum linnaeanum leaves are sometimes hairy. They may also be dark green and glossy above with white surface mottling. The whitish margins in picture are hairy, the leaf lobes bluntly arrow-shaped, given observer imagination.

The prickles or spines on top of the leaf appear longer than those on the lower surface, also longer than on the stem. Leaf prickles grow on the main veins, the upper surface ones here single, the lower surface ones paired.

Samples of one don’t have to be ignored, they give clues for checking more instances that may never happen without that first fortuitous spotting (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).