Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: AN Schmidt-Lebuhn, near Great Central Road, NT

Shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Pituri; Pitchuri Thornapple; Pitcheri

Family

Solanaceae

Notes

Shrub to 4m tall.  Leaves slightly fleshy, alternating up the stems, 2-13cm long, 1-13mm wide, flat, hairless.  Flowers white with purple-stripes inside, bell-shaped, with five lobes, in narrow leafy 'panicles' arising from the bases of the leaves and at the ends of the branches.  Fruit purple to black.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 582

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Duboisia~hopwoodii

Online fact sheet published by the South Australian Herbarium:    http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Solanaceae%20species/key/Australian%20Solanaceae%20species/Media/Html/Duboisia_hopwoodii.htm