Solanum viarum, the tropical soda apple, is a species of perennial shrub native to Brazil and Argentina with a prickly stem and prickly leaves. The fruit is golf-ball-sized with the coloration of a watermelon. It is considered an invasive species in the lower eastern coastal states of the United States and more recently in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia (first being spotted on the Mid North Coast in 2010).
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Tropical soda-apple being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Solanum myriacanthum
- Solanum aculeatissimum
- Solanum palinacanthum
- Solanum umtuma
- Solanum hirtum
- Solanum capsicoides
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Solanales
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Genus
- Solanum
- Species
- Solanum viarum
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