| Scientific Name: | Solanum scabrum |
| Common Name: | garden huckleberry, African nightshade |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Africa - tropical |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Dentate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Black, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Plants and leaves resemble pepper, ovate, most mature blades 7-10cm long x 5-8cm wide, petioles 1-6cm long; flowers white, 1-2cm wide, in axial, umbel-like clusters of 4-12; berries round, ~1cm wide, ripening from green to dark purple-black. | |