Normania triphylla

Shrub, annual, up to 1 m tall. Branches are somewhat pubescent, as are the leaves, which have 3 leaflets with entire or dentate margins. Inflorescence is terminal, with 10-15 bell-shaped, purple-blue flowers. Fruit is globose and orangey, which is characteristic of the family Solanaceae, up to 1.5 cm in diameter. This native species is extremely rare, highly localized and typical of well-preserved damp laurisilva laurel forests. In addition to its scarcity, distribution and abundance can vary annually, hence its consideration as highly endangered. Moreover, the genus Normania only comprises two species—N. triphylla and N. nava—native to Tenerife and Gran Canaria, and considered virtually extinct, as no specimens have been recorded in the wild since the 1980s.