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Solanum aculeastrum
About
Solanum aculeastrum is commonly known as soda apple, sodaapple nightshade, goat apple, poison apple, or more ambiguously as "bitter-apple". It is a poisonous nightshade species from Africa and not related to true apples. The term "soda apple" probably derives from "Sodom apple", modified due to the fruit's detergent properties.
- Family
- Solanaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Solanum aculeastrum
- Slug
- solanum-aculeastrum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Genus
- Solanum
- Species
- aculeastrum
- Wikidata QID
- Q2891389
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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