About tropical soda-apple
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).
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Solanum viarum
- Genus
- Solanum
- Family
- SOLANACEAE
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Waste places, foothills of degrded Evergreen forests
- Native to
- South America
- Distribution
- Naturalized in Tropics
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Telugu
- కాశీ వంగ, ఔషధ వంగ
- Kannada
- ಕಾಶಿಬದನೆ
Solanaceae
Nightshade/Tomato family
tropical soda-apple belongs to the Solanaceae family.
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