☠  Apple of Sodom  ☠
Channel: zuditaka
Date: 2014-03-16

☠  Apple of Sodom  ☠

It's Sunday afternoon--a lazy one--and I'm enjoying the pretty purple flowers in the sunshine. Is this "Apple of Sodom" (Solanum linnaeanum)? I am not sure, but it's certainly a very pretty weed that grows wild around my area. (If it's not Apple of Sodom, then it must be a very close relative!) It has all nasty spines on the leaves; and poisonous fruits. The flowers are the shapes of pretty stars and go from mauve to purplish in colour. They look very happy on sunny days. As you can probably tell, from looking at the flowers, they are related to tomatoes and potatoes and are part of the big Solanaceae family. 

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