Jerusalem Cherry, Madeira Cherry at Quaama, NSW
Identification history
| Unidentified | 28 Apr 2020 | FionaG |
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User's notes
Small shrub with long pointy leaves and small round berries in varying stages of ripeness. Have seen this plant only once before (when checking to see if the fires had reached our creek. The photo was taken at 1 pm though it looks like night) and it was tall (over 1 metre) but spindly.
2 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
28 Apr 2020
Hi Fiona, That one is a weed and potentially quite invasive so you might want to dig it out and destroy the fruits. It is bird dispersed, for obvious reasons, so the odd one will pop up here and there, but if not removed the numbers will increase. We had one or two here and it wasn't too hard to get rid of, just needed a bit of follow-up for a year or two. The fruits are quite poisonous.
FionaG
wrote:
28 Apr 2020
Thanks Jackie, particularly regarding them being poisonous. I will remove both today.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.895889-36.462411
- Altitude 155.0m
- Places Quaama, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 5 Jan 2020 01:19 PM Recorded on
- FionaG Recorded by
Species information
- Solanum pseudocapsicum Scientific name
- Jerusalem Cherry, Madeira Cherry Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Minor Weed or Pest
- Up to 876m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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