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Solanum nigrum?

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So I was hiking along a river and found these plants that looked like Solanum nigrum, snagged some pics and a hand full of berries.

The leaves seemed a bit less deeply serrated than in many pics, but thats variable I suppose. The plants were 20-40 cm tall, kind of small but they were growing in frikking sand, lol.

Flower morphology, calyx, berry size and coloration, berry cluster configuration, and other than the shallower serrations leaf shape all seem to match.. but genus Solanum isnt really my thing and I'm unsure of the existence of look-alikes.

Whatcha think?

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Yeah I'm positive that these are what you think.

The flowers check out, berries too..

I have seen many variations of the leaves, from smooth edges to almost completely serrated.

These are literally EVERYWHERE around me, i remember making concoctions from their berries and others i found, put them in wine bottles and returning them to my parents cellar... Heeheh.

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w00t, score one for my ID skillz B)

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I concur, many people around here spray them there are so many.

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