Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Solanum capsicoides
Devil's Apple
Solanaceae
Forest margins, disturbed areas in clearings, and along creeklines. Sydney area and Blue Mountains. Rarely elsewhere.
Introduced annual or short-lived perennial shrub to 1 m high. Prickles yellowish, scattered on most parts. Fruit fleshy, becoming dryish at maturity. Young stems densely hairy, becoming sparsely hairy and slightly sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-16 cm long, 50-150 mm wide, both surfaces green and sparsely hairy, margins coarsely toothed or shallowly to deeply lobed. Flowers bisexual and male, white, 15–35 mm in diameter, star-shaped with 5 deeply incised lobes. Flowers in 1–5-flowered clusters. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit bright orange-scarlet, the base enclosed n the prickly calyx, 20–45 mm in diameter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~capsicoides (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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