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Common names used for Solanaceae in Australia
A selection of common names applied to species of Solanaceae in Australia. All common names appearing in the earlier Flora of Australia vol. 29 treatment (Purdie et al. 1982) have also been included here. Extra common names have been taken from the sources indicated. Regional variation will account for more common names of species e.g. Broome Tobacco (Kenneally et al. 1996), but no attempt has been made to encompass all of these.
Common names should always be used with care, but this applies particularly to those names applied to many of the Solanum species where there has been a changed circumscription of many of the Queensland species. Particular care also needs to be taken where the group concerned contains both edible and poisonous plants as in many of the Solanum species.
Afghan Thistle = Solanum hystrix or Solanum hoplopetalum
African Boxthorn = Lycium ferocissimum
Angel’s Trumpet = Datura metel (Hussey et al. 1997), but more usually referring to Brugmansia spp. which are not known to be naturalised in Australia. Brugmansia species are usually woody and with pendulous flowers while Datura species are herbaceous with erect flowers.
Apple of Peru = Nicandra physalodes
Apple of Sodom = Solanum linnaeanum
Aubergine = Solanum melongena
Australian Boxthorn = Lycium australe
Belladonna = Atropa belladonna - not naturalised in Australia. For further information see Mrs Grieve’s Modern Herbal or the Erowid page with images of plants, flowers and fruits and background information.
Bittersweet = Solanum dulcamara
Black-berry Nightshade = Solanum nigrum
Black Henbane = Hyoscyamus niger
Black Nightshades = species of the Solanum nigrum group
Blue Potato Bush = Lycianthes rantonnetii (Spencer 2002), but see under Solanum rantonnetii
Boxthorn = Lycium spp.
Brazilian Nightshade = Solanum seaforthianum
Brinjal = Solanum melongena (Spencer 2002)
Broome Tobacco = Nicotiana heterantha
Buffalo Burr = Solanum rostratum
Bush Tomato = Solanum centrale
Bush Tomato = Solanum chippendalei (Latz 1981) but also often used for Solanum centrale and other Solanum species eaten by Aboriginal people of Central Australia. Care needs to be taken as not all Solanum fruits in the area are edible - and some are poisonous.
Bush Violet = Browallia americana (Spencer 2002)
Cape Gooseberry = Physalis peruviana
Coast Tobacco = Nicotiana maritima
Chalice Vine = Solandra maxima
Chilean Cestrum = Cestrum parqui
Chillies = Capsicum spp.
Chinese Boxthorn = Lycium barbarum
Chinese Lantern = Physalis spp.
Common Thornapple = Datura stramonium
Corkwood = Duboisia myoporoides
Corkwood = Duboisia leichhardtii
Cupflower = Nierembergia hippomanica
Cut-leaf nightshade = Solanum triflorum (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Deadly Nightshade = Atropa belladonna - not naturalised in Australia. For further information see Mrs Grieve’s Modern Herbal or the Erowid page with images of plants, flowers and fruits and background information.
Desert Nightshade = Solanum oligacanthum
Desert Raisin = Solanum centrale (Latz 1981)
Devil’s Apple = Solanum capsicoides
Devil’s Fig = Solanum torvum
Devil’s Needles = Solanum stelligerum
Dirran curse = Solanum hamulosum
Downy Thornapple = Datura inoxia
Eastern Nightshade = Solanum pungetium
Eggplant = Solanum melongena
Elegant Poisonberry = Cestrum elegans
Felted Nightshade = Solanum quadriloculatum
Felted Nightshade = Solanum coactiliferum (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Felty Nightshade = Solanum densevestitum
Fierce Thornapple = Datura ferox
Flannel Bush = Solanum lasiophyllum
Forest Nightshade = Solanum prinophyllum
Forked Nightshade = Solanum sisymbriifolium
Giant Devil’s Fig = Solanum chrysotrichum
Giant Potato Creeper = Solanum wendlandii (Spencer 2002)
Gin’s Whiskers = Solanum inaequilaterum, Solanum semiarmatum
Glossy Nightshade = Solanum americanum
Green-berry Nightshade = Solanum opacum
Green Cestrum = Cestrum parqui
Green Poisonberry = Cestrum parqui
Grey Ray Flower = Cyphanthera albicans
Goosefoot Potato Bush = Solanum chenopodinum (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Ground Cherry = Physalis ixocarpa
Ground Cherries = Physalis spp.
Gunyang = Solanum vescum (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Hairy Thornapple = Datura wrightii
Hoary Thornapple = Datura wrightii
Horn of Plenty = Datura metel (Hussey et al. 1997)
Jasmine Nightshade = Solanum laxum
Jerusalem Cherry = Solanum pseudocapsicum
Jimson Weed = Datura stramonium, but also used to refer to other Datura species in America as well e.g. Datura wrightii
Kangaroo Apple = Australian species of Solanum subgen. Archaesolanum , Solanum aviculare, Solanum laciniatum, Solanum linearifolium, Solanum vescum, Solanum simile, Solanum symonii, Solanum capsiciforme
Kaffir Boxthorn = Lycium afrum
Lady of the night = Cestrum nocturnum
Lagoon Nightshade = Solanum lacunarium
Leichhardt’s Thornapple = Datura leichhardtii
Long-flowered Tobacco = Nicotiana megalosiphon (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Longspine Thornapple = Datura ferox
Love Apple = Solanum lycopersicum (Spencer 2002)
Madeira Winter Cherry = Solanum pseudocapsicum
Menindee Nightshade = Solanum karsense (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Money-leaved Solanum = Solanum nummularium
Mountain Kangaroo Apple = Solanum linearifolium
Narrawa Burr = Solanum cinereum
Native Pepper = Solanum capsiciforme
Native Thornapple = Datura leichhardtii
Native Tobacco = usually Nicotiana occidentalis, Nicotiana suaveolens but could be any native Nicotiana species
Native Tomato = Solanum ellipticum (Latz 1981)
Nightshades = Solanum spp.
Nipple Fruit = Solanum mammosum (Spencer 2002)
Oondoroo = Solanum simile or Solanum esuriale
Orange Cestrum = Cestrum aurantiacum
Pale-fruited Nightshade = Solanum adenophorum (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Pampas Lily of the valley = Salpichroa origanifolia
Pepino = Solanum muricatum. Grown but not naturalised in Australia. Fruits can be seen at www.orana.dk/fruitofthemonth23.html
Peppers = Capsicum spp.
Perennial Ground Cherry = Physalis virginiana
Pincushion Nightshade = Solanum rostratum
Pituri = Duboisia hopwoodii
Poisonberries = Cestrum spp.
Porcupine Solanum = Solanum hystrix
Potato = Solanum tuberosum
Potato Bush = Solanum ellipticum (Latz 1981)
Potato Bush = Solanum esuriale (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Potato Tree = Solanum erianthum
Potato Vine = Solanum laxum
Potato Weed = Solanum ellipticum
Prickly Potato Weed = Solanum hoplopetalum
Quena = Solanum simile or Solanum esuriale
Red Cestrum = Cestrum elegans
Rock Nightshade = Solanum petrophilum
Scented Tobacco = Nicotiana suaveolens (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Shy Nightshade = Solanum cleistogamum (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Silver Leaf Nightshade = Solanum elaeagnifolium
Slender Tailflower = Anthocercis gracilis
Small-flowered Tobacco = Nicotiana goodspeedii (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Spiny Kangaroo Apple = Solanum brownii
Spiny Potato Bush = Solanum ferocissimum (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Sticky Cape Gooseberry = Physalis viscosa
Sticky Ground Cherry = Physalis viscosa
Sticky Nightshade = Solanum sisymbriifolium
Sticky Tailflower = Anthocercis viscosa
Sturt’s Nightshade = Solanum sturtianum (Jessop & Toelken 1986)
Tailflower = Anthocercis spp.
Tamarillo = Solanum betaceum (syn. Cyphomandra betacea)
Thargomindah Nightshade = Solanum sturtianum
Three-flowered Nightshade = Solanum triflorum
Thornapple = Datura spp.
Tobacco = Nicotiana spp.
Tobacco Bush = Nicotiana glauca
Tobacco Tree = Solanum erianthum
Tomatillo = Physalis philadelphica
Tomato = Solanum lycopersicum (syn. Lycopersicon esculentum)
Tomato Bush = Solanum quadriloculatum (Jessop & Toelken 1986)
Tomato Weed = Solanum esuriale (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Tree Tobacco = Nicotiana glauca
Tree Tomato = Solanum betaceum (syn. Cyphomandra betacea)
Velvet Potato Bush = Solanum ellipticum (Jessop & Toelken 1986)
Velvet Tobacco = Nicotiana velutina (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Violet Nightshade = species of Solanum brownii
Water Bush = Lycium australe (Cunningham et al. 1981)
Western Nightshade = Solanum quadriloculatum (Jessop & Toelken 1986)
Western Nightshade = Solanum coactiliferum
White-edge Nightshade = Solanum marginatum
White Henbane = Hyoscyamus albus
White Horse Nettle = Solanum elaeagnifolium
White-tip Nightshade = Solanum chenopodioides
Wild Gooseberry = Physalis minima
Wild Gooseberry = Solanum ellipticum (Latz 1981)
Wild Tobacco = Nicotiana suaveolens (Cunningham et al. 1981, as N. exigua)
Wild Tobacco Tree = Solanum mauritianum
Wild Tomato = Solanum quadriloculatum (Jessop & Toelken 1986)
Wild Tomato = Solanum orbiculatum (Mitchell & Wilcox 1994)
Winter Cherry = Withania somnifera
Winter Cherry = Solanum pseudocapsicum (Jessop & Toelken 1986)
Woody Nightshade = Solanum dulcamara
Woolly Nightshade = Solanum villosum
Yellow Tailflower = Anthocercis littorea
Yesterday today and tomorrow = Brunfelsia spp., usually assigned to B. pauciflora or B. australis. Commonly grown in gardens but not known to be naturalised. Brunfelsia species are poisonous.
References
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981). Plants of Western New South Wales. (Government Printer, New South Wales).
Hussey, B.M.J., Keighery, G.J., Cousens, R.D., Dodd, J. & Lloyd, S.G. (1997). Western weeds: a guide to the weeds of Western Australia. Plant Protection Society of Western Australia: Victoria Park).
Jessop, J. & Toelken, H.R. (eds) (1986). Flora of South Australia. 4th ed. 4 vol. (Government Printer: Adelaide).
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D. & Willing, T. (1996). Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia. (Department of Conservation and Land Management, Como, Western Australia).
Mitchell, A.A. & Wilcox, D.G. (1994). Arid shrubland plants of Western Australia. (UWA Press: Perth).
Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. (1982). Flora of Australia. Solanaceae. Vol. 29 (Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra).
Spencer, R. (2002). Horticultural Flora of south-eastern Australia. Vol. 4 (UNSW Press: Sydney)
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