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Australian wild tomato
Solanum quadriloculatum
Solanum quadriloculatum is known under the (ambiguous) common names of "bush tomato" or (in Australia) "wild tomato". It is a small fruiting shrub in the Solanaceae family. It was and occasionally still is included in S. ellipticum by some authors, but generally these two species of "bush tomatoes" are considered distinct nowadays.
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Description
Solanum quadriloculatum is an upright or spreading shrub to 0.5 m (1 ft 8 in) high, leaves thick, grey-green or yellowish-green, densely covered in star-shaped hairs, occasionally rough, prickly, elliptic to oval-shaped, 5–9 cm (2.0–3.5 in) long, 1.5–5 cm (0.59–1.97 in) wide, margins entire or slightly wavy on a petiole 1–4 cm (0.39–1.57 in) long. The purple flowers are borne in groups of 2-3, 2–2.5 cm (0.79–0.98 in) wide, 5 lobed, 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long, mostly star-shaped and peduncle 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) long. Flowering occurs from early autumn to spring and the fruit is a brownish-yellow berry 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) in diameter.
Range & habitat
Tomato bush grows along disturbed roadways, clay, loam soils and dry locations that are seasonally flooded in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 551489.