solanum

Twoleaf Nightshade, very attractive compact bushy plant with cascades of showy red berries, loved by birds. It can be shaped into a small standard. Leaves are 1-2", dark green and shiny/glossy, come in unequal pairs: one is large and elliptic, the other small and rounded. The many-seeded berries ripen to yellow-orange. The fruit attract sweet-loving insects and birds. It is cultivated in China and Taiwan as an ornamental and for hedges. In Mexico, the plant is used medicinally as a calming remedy.

This is a very rare in cultivation, showy, evergreen, slender-stemmed vine growing to 20 ft and bearing large nodding clusters of violet-blue flowers with yellow stamens in summer. They look spectacular along with hanging clusters of bright red fruit.

Potato vine. This woody vine has large heads of dark mauve flowers and round yellow fruit. Very ornamental, not invasive, but a fast grower. Thorny.