Solanum aculeatissimum root

Solanum aculeatissimum, also known as prickly nightshade, is an erect subshrub, 0.5-1 m tall, with all parts covered in jointed long soft hairs and straight prickles. The leaves are papery, broadly ovate, up to 11 cm long or more, 4-9 cm wide, with a short-pointed or gradually pointed tip and a heart-shaped base, the margin 5-7-lobed or half-lobed, the lobes triangular, long-triangular or ovate, with shallowly wavy margins; the lateral veins are equal in number to the lobes, with straight prickles scattered on them; the petiole is up to 5 cm long. In summer and autumn it bears white flowers, several arranged in axillary cymes; the calyx is bell-shaped, covered outside with long soft hairs and fine small prickles, and has 5 ovate lobes; the corolla is broadly bell-shaped, with a 5-lobed limb, the lobes lanceolate; there are 5 stamens, borne at the throat, with short filaments, the anthers about 2.5 times as long as the filaments, united into a conical body, extended at the tip, opening by pores. The berry is flattened-spherical, 3.5-4 cm in diameter, orange-red when ripe, and contains many seeds. It often grows in wasteland, by village edges, and along roadsides in semi-shady, moist and fertile places. It is distributed in our province as well as Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, China, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan and other provinces and regions. Wild or cultivated.