Silverleaf nightshade
Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 55 cm
- wide
- —
Solanaceae
Also called White Horse-nettle, White nightshade, Silver leaf nightshade, Silverleaf Bitter Apple, Tomato weed
Formerly Solanum dealbatum, Solanum flavidum, Solanum leprosum, Solanum lunatum, and 3 more
When it flowers
Flowers March to December in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. & C. U.S.A. to Mexico, S. South AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 cm to 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, violet, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Black cherryFlowers January to February, when this does not
ElderFlowers January to February, when this does not
Glossy abeliaFlowers January to February, when this does not
Japanese honeysuckleFlowers January to February, when this does not
Memorial RoseFlowers January to February, when this does not
PeachFlowers January to February, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- French
- Morelle à feuilles de chalef
- Spanish
- Pera, Quillo, Trompillo
- Hebrew
- סולנום זיתני
- Afrikaans
- Satansbos
- Swedish
- Silverskatta
- Chinese
- 銀葉茄, 银叶茄, 银毛龙葵
- Finnish
- kilsekoiso
- Russian
- Паслён лохолистный
- Czech
- lilek hlošinolistý
- Japanese
- グミバナス
- Chinese (China)
- 银叶茄
- Arabic
- باذنجان فضي الأوراق
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Solanum elaeagnifolium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.