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Solanum quadriloculatum
Also called Wild Tomato, Australian Wild Tomato
Solanum quadriloculatum is a low, upright or spreading native Australian shrub, usually under 0.5 m, grown mainly for its hardy, drought-tolerant nature and purple flowers. It is a species, not a genus, and it is a wild relative of the cultivated tomato rather than a crop plant.
Solanum quadriloculatum commonly known as tomato bush or wild tomato, is a flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is an upright perennial with hairy, grey-green thick leaves and purple flowers and grows on mainland Australia with the exception of Victoria.
Tomato bush grows along disturbed roadways, clay, loam soils and dry locations that are seasonally flooded in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Solanum quadriloculatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
