Poison Gooseberry
Inconspicuous green-white flowers give rise to red berries inside papery sepals. Shrubby perennial.
Bitter Apple Nightshade
Very common mostly herbaceous plant at roadsides. Fuzzy leaves, spiney stems, purple flowers and yellow fruits.
Thorny Nightshade
Sharp heavy thorns. Flower petals whitish; stamens conspicuous yellow. Leaves coarsely lobed. Fruits yellow + rough.
Prickliest Nightshade
Leaves and stems all densely covered with long, sharp needles. Pale flowers and yellow fruit.
Bush Nightshade
Stiff woody branches with stout thorns, tough leathery leaves with more thorns, and purple flowers.
Tobacco Weed
Two meter tall shrub or small tree with flat-topped panicles of purple nightshade flowers. Kakmega Forest.
Black Nightshade
A toxic weed or a widely used garden vegetable (Suchaa) depending on the variety. Berries black when ripe.
Tree Tomato
A two to three meter tall nightshade bearing edible fruit. Native to tropical America and maintained in Kenya cultivation
Jimson Weed
Robust herbaceous plant with large, tubular, white flowers and fruits covered with sharp prickles. Poisonous.
Angel's Trumpet
Small trees to several meters tall with large, dark green leaves and large white to pink trumpet-shaped flowers. Toxic and non-native.
Apple of Peru
Large purple-tinted flowers on herbaceous weed. The fruit is enclosed in a lantern-shaped cover derived from the sepals.
Uchuva
Cultivated vegetable/ fruit native to Americas. Papery husk surrounds orange-red berry.
Orange Jessamine
Bright orange yellow flowers and white fruits are attractive but this shrubby plant is a non-native invasive.