Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Solanum pseudocapsicum
Common name
Madeira winter cherry, Jerusalem cherry
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Forest, grassy areas, disturbed moist sites, and along streams. Mostly coast and ranges, occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced shrub to 2 m high. Fruit fleshy. Young stems sparsely hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, rarely opposite each other, 3–10 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, hairless, thin and soft, margins entire and slightly wavy, tips pointed. Flowers white, 10–15 mm in diameter, deeply star-shaped with 5 lobes, in clusters of one to several flowers. Flowers mostly Spring to Autumn. Fruit bright orange to red, globular, 10–15 mm in diameter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~pseudocapsicum (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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