Common name: Devil's Apple
Solanum capsicoides All. APNI* Synonyms: Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. APNI*
Description: Annual or short-lived perennial shrub to 1 m high, sparsely hairy with long simple and minute glandular hairs; prickles yellowish, scattered on most parts.
Leaves broad-ovate, to 15 cm long and wide, but often smaller and lobed; ± concolorous, both surfaces green and sparsely hairy; petiole to 8 cm long.
Inflorescences 1–3-flowered; peduncle 20–40 mm long; pedicels 10–25 mm long. Calyx 4–6 mm long; lobes 2–3 mm long. Corolla stellate, deeply incised, 20–30 mm diam., white.
Berry 20–35 mm diam., bright orange-scarlet.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Naturalized in disturbed, high-rainfall districts; chiefly in near-coastal areas north from Bulahdelah, also collected from Tamworth. Native of C Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *NWS
Other Australian states: *Qld
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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