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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Solanaceae
Nicandra physalodes

Citation: Gaertner, Fruct. 2:237 (1791).

Synonymy: Atropa physalodes L., Sp. Pl. 181 (1753).

Common name: Apple of Peru.

Description:
Herbs to 2 m high or more; leaf lamina narrowly to broadly ovate, to 21 rarely 31 cm long, margin usually dentate or sinuate-dentate; petiole to 9 cm long.

Pedicel to 24 mm long, recurved; sepals ovate, often slightly mucronate at the apex, sagittate at the base and often mucronate at basal tips, to 22 mm long; corolla to 23 rarely 30 mm long, limb slightly lobed; style 3-6 mm long.

Berry to 22 mm diam.; seeds compressed, subdiscoid to broadly reniform, to 2 mm long; testa reticulate-pitted.

image of FSA3_Nycandra_phy.jpg Flowering branch and opened fruit.
Image source: fig. 567B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Peru. Flowers: at most times of the year, principally summer-autumn.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

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