Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Solanum vescum
Common name
Narrow-leaved Kangaroo Apple, Gunyang
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Forest margins, regrowth, cleared forest, dunes, and stream banks. Mainly coast, ranges, tablelands, and ACT, rarely Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Prickles absent. Fruit fleshy. Stems narrowly winged or longitudinally ridged from the leaf stalks continuing down the stems, virtually hairless except for minute simple and glandular hairs on young growth and flowers. Leaves alternating up the stems, deeply lobed or entire, hairless, tips pointed. Lobed leaves 10–50 cm long. 90-190 mm wide. Entire leaves 5–18 cm long, 5–15 mm wide. Flowers violet to violet-blue, usually 35–40 mm in diameter, broadly tubular with 5 lobes, to star-shaped, single or in two- to many-flowered clusters. Fruit greenish or greenish white to cream, round to oval, 20–35 mm in diameter. Flowers winter to summer.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~vescum (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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