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Kangaroo apple

Solanum aviculare

Photo by MartinL
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Field Notes

Description:

Delicate purple flower with four fused petals. Green fruit ripen to orange.

Notes:

Solanum group includes the toxic nightshades and potato. It also includes tomato, capsicum and chilli.

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friend gave me this plant -Kangaroo Apple -grew 3 ft here, in Australia she she…

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Comments (7)
Mark Ridgway
Yep Bush Tucker alright martinl.... they have to be really ripe (almost red) and even then they are very bush tuckerish :) sour, bitey etc. I wouldn't recommend eating a lot of them in one go.
MartinL
I didn't know they are edible. Bush Tucker I guess. I never quite trust Solanum.
Mark Ridgway
people eat the fruit when it's that colour (and possums etc.)
alicelongmartin
I quite understand now, the leaves are quite distinctive.
MartinL
I,ve added a pic of the leaves to illustrate looking like a kangaroo footprint.
MartinL
No I don't think so. In fact the leaves have three points and look similar in outline to a kangaroos footprint. I think the name comes from that.

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PublishedNovember 25, 2011

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