Tropical Soda-Apple
Solanum viarum
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand, Kerala, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Tropical Soda-Apple
Identify Tropical Soda-Apple by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Uttarakhand, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Solanaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Tropical Soda-Apple.
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
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Solanaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Solanaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Telugu
- కాశీ వంగ, ఔషధ వంగ
- Kannada
- ಕಾಶಿಬದನೆ
About Tropical Soda-Apple
A member of the Solanaceae family, Tropical soda-apple (Solanum viarum) is a shrub. In India it has been recorded in Uttarakhand, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and 19 other states. It grows in waste places, foothills of degrded Evergreen forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Solanaceae
Nightshade/Tomato family
Tropical Soda-Apple belongs to the Solanaceae family.
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