Red Soda Apple

(Solanum capsicoides)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect spreading perennial shrub

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot and rhizomes

Leaf anatomy: Alternate arrangement, blades ovate-triangular; sinuate-lobed, scattered pubescence, prickles broad-based

Flowers: lateral, few-flowered, corolla white to cream-colored with 5 petals, yellow stamen

_{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}