Hi Sue, I can't say for sure if this is Kangaroo Apple, Solanum aviculare or Gunyang, S. vescum. The latter can become very common after fire and is seldom seen otherwise, while K. Apple pops up after any sort of disturbance including breaking of droughts. I know Haycock didn't get burnt, so that suggests it is K. Apple, but they are so similar I am not game to confirm it. Either way it is native.
Thanks, Jackie. After I took this photo, we drove out to Ben Boyd's Tower, which was totally burnt, and I was amazed to see plants that looked similar to this, but they had grown to well over a metre wide and high, covering all the burnt out ground around the Tower area.
Yep, those ones are Solanum vescum, and this is the second time they have done that, as the area around the tower got burnt in 2016 as well. If your thing at Haycock is S. aviculare it could well get to 2-3m high eventually, with a single main stem then branching about a metre above the ground, and they can live for maybe 5 years, unlike S. vescum which only last for around 2 years (and branches from ground level).
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