Solanum prinophyllum, known as the Forest Nightshade is a small plant native to the east coast of Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. A short lived herb, annual or perennial. Leaves spiky, and often tinged with purple, 5 to 8 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide. Stems also spiky.

The habitat is moist areas, in sclerophyll

Sclerophyll

Sclerophyll is the term for a type of vegetation that has hard leaves and short internodes . The word comes from the Greek sclero and phyllon ....

 forest, or disturbed areas in rainforest

Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...

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Forest Nightshade grows up to 50 cm high. Five petalled flowers occur at any time of the year, being blue or lilac in colour. Petals fused at the base. The fruit is a berry

Berry

The botanical definition of a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary. Grapes are an example. The berry is the most common type of fleshy fruit in which the entire ovary wall ripens into an edible pericarp. They may have one or more carpels with a thin covering and fleshy interiors....

, purple or staying green around 15 to 20 mm in diameter. The fruit stem is 10 to 20 mm long.