Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Nicandra physalodes
Common name
Apple-of-Peru
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Forest margins, crops, disturbed sites, roadsides, gardens, and along streams. Coastal. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to about 2 m high. Fruit fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–15 cm long, 10–60 mm wide, variable in shape, narrow to broad, margins usually irregularly toothed, surfaces more or less hairless, tips pointed or blunt. Flowers pale blue to mauve, 12–30 mm long, with a bowl-shaped tube and 5 short lobes. Flowers single. Flowers mostly summer and autumn. Fruit pale yellow, round, usually 11–22 mm in diameter, enclosed by the enlarged papery calyx.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Nicandra~physalodes
(accessed 28 January, 2021)
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