Family: Solanaceae
Solanum simile
Citation:
F. Muell, Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:18 (1854).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Kangaroo apple, oondooroo.
Description:
An erect soft-wooded shrub 0.5-1.5 rarely 2 m tall, lasting several years, not clonal in habit; glabrous except for minute hairs on the petal tip, unarmed, general aspect green; juvenile leaves with 2-4 shallow lobes towards the base, lobes bluntly triangular, apices rounded, sinuses rounded and shallow; mature leaves 4-8 x 1-2 cm, entire, (rarely with 1-4 small lobes towards the base), elliptic or lanceolate, apex rounded, acute or long acuminate, base almost equal.
Flowers: Sept.-April.
Fruit 1.5-2 cm long, globular, marbled-green, ripening green, sometimes tinged with purple, becoming slightly translucent, succulent and aromatic when ripe, readily shed without the pedicel; seeds 2-2.5 mm long, greyish or dark-brown, rugose-ruminate under a lens, stone cells 1-3 mm diam., rounded and often facetted but seeds not usually adherent.
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Image source: fig. 579A in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 589.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NU, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, KI, SE. W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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