''Solanum ellipticum'' is known as potato bush and under the more ambiguous name of "
bush tomato
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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
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''duribaccalis'', but generally these two species of "bush tomatoes" are considered distinct nowadays. Similarly, the former variety ''horridum'' is now ''
S. senticosum'', the ''
S. echinatum'' of
Robert Brown was sometimes treated as var. ''pannifolium'', and ''
S. esuriale'' was included in ''S. ellipticum'' as
form ''inermis''.
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A few now-invalid names for ''S. ellipticum'' also exist; mostly they refer to potatobush plants believed to be distinct forms or varieties but today not considered to be ]taxonomical
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* ''Solanum ellipticum'' f. ''albiflorum'' Domin
* ''Solanum ellipticum'' var. ''chillagoense'' Domin
* ''Solanum ellipticum'' var. ''mollibaccalis'' J.M.Black
* ''Solanum lithophilum'' F.Muell.
* ''Solanum cleistogamum'' Symon
See also
* Bushfood
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References
External links
* 008br>''Solanum ellipticum''
Retrieved 2008-SEP-26.
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ellipticum
Solanales of Australia
Eudicots of Western Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Flora of South Australia
Flora of Queensland
Flora of New South Wales
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