High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Solanum atropurpureum, commonly known as Malevolence, Purple Devil and the Five-Minute Plant, is a perennial herbaceous plant native to South America. The plant is a member of the genus Solanum, and is therefore related to the Deadly Nightshade and the Tomato plant. It can be found growing in any tropical to temperate climate with mild winters. S. atropurpureum contains various toxic tropane alkaloids in its fruit, stems and leaves and should not be ingested.