Kangaroo Apple

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Common name:
Kangaroo Apple

Family name:
Solanaceae

Botanical name:
Solanum linearifolium

Flowering/fruiting season:
Summer (Flood, 1980:96)

Location:
Tableland
In disturbed dry sclerophyll such as margins of young pine plantations; common in vicinity of Lake George; also coastal ranges form Sydney to Vic. border (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:320)
Kangaroo Apple
Use:
Food
Large fruit (2x2cm) was eaten raw or roasted. 'Only eaten when outer skin bursts in summer, mealy, slightly acid taste' (Flood, 1980:96)
Notes:
Purple flowers, yellow fruit
Cautionary note on consumption of Solanum (see Cribb & Cribb, 1987:60)
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Horticulture :
Propagated by seed or from cutting. 'Very hardy in all soils and aspects. Fast growing excellent screen plant.' (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998:467-68) 

 

Kangaroo Apple