Native to arid areas this decorative ground-cover grows to 20cm high and has silver grey leaves and purple flowers. The fruits are a bushfood and the roots are baked and used for aboriginal toothaches. The quite similar Solanum quadriloculatum has poisonous fruit.
- Type
- Native
- Maintenance
- Low
- Water use
- Minimal
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Grass and Groundcover
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Semi-arid with summer rain, Arid interior, Semi-arid with winter rain
- Soils
- Loam
- Tolerances
- Frost, Wind
- Regions
- Alice Water Smart
- Shade levels
- Full sun
- Flowering seasons
- Winter
- Colours
- Green, Purple
- Gardens
- Hardy Garden