Potato Bush
Potato bush is a common name for several species of plants and may refer to: * ''Solanum ellipticum ''Solanum ellipticum'' is known as potato bush and under the more ambiguous name of "bush tomato". The Arrernte name of ''merne awele-awele'' might refer to this species or to the similar '' S. quadriloculatum''. Native to Australia, the potato ...'', a small fast-growing waxy-looking shrub that grows next to creeks * '' Solanum esuriale'', a species of perennial herbaceous plant native to Australia {{Plant common name ...
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Solanum Ellipticum
''Solanum ellipticum'' is known as potato bush and under the more ambiguous name of "bush tomato". The Arrernte name of ''merne awele-awele'' might refer to this species or to the similar '' S. quadriloculatum''. Native to Australia, the potato bush is a small fruiting shrub in the family Solanaceae. ''Solanum ellipticum'' was described by F. von Mueller. The plant named thus by J.M. de Conceição Vellozo is actually '' S. cylindricum''. It a small fast-growing waxy-looking shrub that grows next to creeks. It fruits prolifically the year after fire or good rains. Its fruit have a pungent smell, and the plant can be smelled from some distance away when the fruit are ripe. Like the other "bush tomatoes", ''S. ellipticum'' fruit are edible raw or cooked. ''Solanum ellipticum'' used to (and in some treatments still does) include ''S. quadriloculatum'' as variety ''duribaccalis'', but generally these two species of "bush tomatoes" are considered distinct nowadays. Similarly, t ...
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