A herb which grows to a height of 1m. Stems are velvety and spiny at the apex. Thorns are 1.5cm long and 1.5mm in diameter. Leaves are simple, spiral, and exstipulate. Blade is hairy, 22cm × 12cm, and spiny, incised with about five pairs of secondary nerves. Flowers are purplish-yellow. Fruits are yellowish-orange, 5.7cm × 4.4cm, with five ovoid basal appendages which are 1.9cm × 1.6cm, glossy, and curiously shaped like some kind of plastic toy.

Used as a narcotic (plant)

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Solanidine, solasodine, solasonine (fruit)

Used to treat athlete's foot, restlessness and irritability (plant); externally aginst scabies (fruit).

Christophe Wiart. Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific, P:273-274, CRC Press, June 2006.