Kangaroo Apple: Leaf

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Potatoes (Solanales)

Family:

Nightshade (Solanaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Kangaroo Apple (Solanum simile)

This Photo:

🔍Leaf🔎

Other name:

Oondooroo

Thank you Ralph Foster & Dr Kym Nicolson for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
These can grow to 2m, so the one depicted here is quite young & small at ~0.5m high; after 2 years of fire recovery.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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