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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

deeply-lobed leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of deeply-lobed leaf with some prickles on upper surface (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of spines on leaf stalk and leaf underside (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

very spiny stems and flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

mature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of mature fruit, showing the spines on the persistent sepals (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

seedling (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

young plant (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Solanum capsicoides

Scientific Name

Solanum capsicoides All.

Synonyms

Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq.

Family

Solanaceae

Common Names

cockroach berry, devil's apple, soda apple

Origin

Native to South America (i.e. eastern Brazil).

Naturalised Distribution

Widely naturalised in eastern Australia (i.e. in the wetter parts of eastern Queensland and in some parts of eastern New South Wales).

Also widely naturalised in other tropical regions, including in south-eastern USA (i.e. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina) on several Pacific islands (i.e. French Polynesia, Western Samoa, Tonga and Hawaii).

Notes

Devil's apple (Solanum capsicoides) is a minor environmental weed in Queensland and northern New South Wales.

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