This plant is a native of those states that include a part of the dry centre (150 – 300mm rainfall) of Australia and forms part of the Aboriginal’s traditional food. In our cold climate garden plants usually reach a maximum height of three metres. Season: Berries usually appear in summer and/or autumn | Contribute Return to Site Map, australia chenopodioides edible nightshade poisonous solanum species tobacco wild. | Contact, Other names: Kangaroo Apples (this name applies only to certain native species), Wild Tomatoes, Potato Bushes, Tomato Bushes (these names also only apply to certain species). The South American garden Potato, Solanum tuberosum L., sometimes persists by tubers on farmland, in vegetable gardens, around rubbish tips or other places where garden refuse has been dumped, but is not truly naturalized in Victoria or elsewhere in Australia. Emu Plains, NSW. I couldn't find any references on the internet to people smoking it, though a couple of people were asking (and no-one seemed to know), and one book said it was not smoked like tobacco. Of the Solanum species which occur in Australia, Solanum americanum, Solanum nigrum, Solanum scabrum and Solanum villosum and Solanum opacum are also considered to be edible (meaning they have some edible parts and some poisnous parts). References: Low (Weeds), Richardson and Shepherd, Electronic Flora of South Australia, Wikipedia. Emu Plains, NSW. Solanum centrale This plant is not on the Australian Noxious Weed List. The berries must be ripe (very dark purple/black in colour), and drop easily into your hand (i.e. | Resources Click here for more self sufficiency and survival resources. If you do not know the genus then use this key first. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles. 23 genera in Australia. Key to Australian Solanaceae species; An interactive key to Australian species of Solanaceae. Some native species of Solanum were known as traditional Aboriginal bush tucker plants. The Solanaceae family includes the famous Deadly Nighshade, Atropa belladonna. sonoita nightshade. Bush Tucker Plant Foods - Edible Weeds High resolution (3008 x 2000), Photo: Solanum Chenopodioides, Whitetip Nightshade. There are about 1500-2000 Solanum species worlwide. Family: Solanaceae, more than 90 genera and 2600 species worldwide. | Disclaimer Habitat: Cosmopolitan weeds of unkempt gardens, crops, wastelands, and creek margins Inflorescences cyme-like, often scorpioid, terminal, lateral, axillary, pseudo-axillary or leaf-opposed, rarely reduced to a single flower. Subordinate Taxa. [4] The main toxic compound is the glycoalkaloid, solasodine, with the highest content in the unripe green berry (2% - 3.5% dry weight).[5]". , sometimes paired, simple or pinnate, entire or lobed, petiolate be. 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