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Synonyms
Family
Common Names
Origin
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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit in fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

deeply-lobes leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

shallowly-lobed leaves and flower clusters (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

flowers and flower buds (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of flowers with pointed petal lobes (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

elongated entire leaves and immature fruit (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)

close-up of dark orange mature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Solanum aviculare

Scientific Name

Solanum aviculare G. Forst.

Synonyms

Solanum aviculare G. Forst. var. acutifolium Korneva
Solanum aviculare G. Forst. var. aviculare
Solanum aviculare G. Forst. var. brisbanense Geras.
Solanum aviculare G. Forst. var. grandiflorum Korneva
Solanum aviculare G. Forst. var. grandifolium Korneva
Solanum aviculare G. Forst. var. hybridum Korneva
Solanum aviculare G. Forst. var. patulum Korneva
Solanum aviculare G. Forst. var. typicum Domin
Solanum brisbanense (Geras.) Geras.
Solanum laciniatum Aiton (misapplied)

Family

Solanaceae

Common Names

kangaroo apple, New Zealand nightshade, poroporo

Origin

Native to south-eastern Asia (i.e. Irian Jaya in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea), eastern Australia (i.e. eastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales and Victoria), Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and New Zealand.

Naturalised Distribution

Naturalised beyond is native range in some parts of southern Australia (i.e. in parts of south-eastern and southern South Australia and in the coastal districts of south-western Western Australia).

Also naturalised overseas in Hawaii and western USA (i.e. California and Oregon).

Notes

Kangaroo apple (Solanum aviculare) is regarded as an environmental weed in South Australia and Western Australia.