Climbing vine to 15' with clusters of violet tomato-like flowers with yellow protruding stamens followed by bright red berries. All parts of the plant should be considered poisonous, although it has a long history of folk use to treat skin eruptions, eczema, as a diuretic, and to induce sweat. Current scientific study shows anti-cancer activity and it is used as starting material for steroids. From Eurasia - now naturalized throughout the U.S.