Kangaroo-apple
Solanum laciniatum Aiton
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Solanaceae
Also called Poroporo, Kangaroo Apple
Formerly Solanum reclinatum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. & SE. Australia, New Zealand, Chatham Is.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 99 cm to 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 99 cm to 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, purple, violet, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Māori
- poroporo
- French
- Morelle laciniée
- Estonian
- känguru-maavits
- Swedish
- känguruäpple, Gult känguruäpple
- Russian
- Паслён дольчатый
- Arabic
- تفاح الكنغر التسماني
- Hebrew
- סולנום שסוע
- Chinese
- 紐澳裂葉茄, 澳洲茄
- Finnish
- kengurunkoiso
- Chinese (China)
- 新澳裂叶茄
- Slovak
- ľuľok úkrojkatý
- Simplified Chinese
- 澳洲茄
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Solanum laciniatum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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