Forest Nightshade at Wonboyn, NSW
Identification history
| Unidentified | 6 Jul 2019 | wickedtatz |
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User's notes
Plant is very low growing, but spreads to about 500 mm. It has very fine thorns covering most of the plant (fruit excluded). Thorns also cover both the top and underside of the leaves. Fruit similar in size to cherry tomatoes, however are variegated light and dark green, like gooseberries.
4 comments
BettyDonWood
wrote:
7 Jul 2019
It is Solanum prinophyllum or Solanum pungetium. The Vicflora key separates them on whether the lower surface of the leaves is densely to moderately hairy with star-shaped hairs that radiate from a point (pungetium) or sparsely hairy with star shaped hairs (prinophyllum).
JackieMiles
wrote:
8 Jul 2019
For the sake of getting this off the unidentified page I'm going to stick my neck out and call it prinophyllum. Our photos of the two species show that species as having a glossy leaf upper surface, which I can just see in the upper one of the two leaves in the 1st photo, and pungetium is dull and hairy on both surfaces. Both are around locally, with prinophyllum a bit more likely to pop up after disturbance and pungetium just being around all the time in moistish forest. Both are native - people tend to assume they are weeds because of their unpleasant spikiness.
wickedtatz
wrote:
8 Jul 2019
Thank you for the information Jackie. My further research (after Betty's identification) leads me to agree with you.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.909673-37.250783
- Places Wonboyn, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 6 Jul 2019 04:26 PM Recorded on
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Additional information
- Less than 10cm Plant height
Species information
- Solanum prinophyllum Scientific name
- Forest Nightshade Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 992.41m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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