It is a shrub or small tree native to tropical Africa south to South Africa, in a wide range of soil, terrain, and climatic conditions. It is highly branched and reaches 1–5 m high, with numerous sharp, hooked, brown thorns. The leaves are ovate, up to 15 cm long and 13 cm broad, with lobed margins and downy undersides.

Solanum is a large, cosmopolitan genus of perhaps as many as 1 500 species; about 50 of these species are found in southern Africa and about 30 of them are indigenous. S. aculeastrum belongs to the section Melongena of the subgenus Leptostemonum .

2008年10月7日 · Solanum aculeastrum. Dunal (Solanaceae), known as “goat bitter-apple,” is a native of Africa and widely distributed in South Africa, mainly in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Western and Eastern Cape Provinces, and also in Swaziland.

2014年1月13日 · Solanum aculeastrum (Solanaceae) commonly known as Omotobo by the Abagusii community of Kenya is also known as soda apple or goat bitter apple or poison apple. The species name aculeastrum refers to the thorns that adorn most parts of the shrub.

2021年1月23日 · Solanum aculeastrum, Solanum bendnerianum, Solanum renschii, Solanum schumannianum, and Solanum terminale are used for fever, throat infections, and wounds (Bussmann 2006). Solanum dasyphyllum is used to remedy cough and trypanosomiasis (Bekalo et al. 2009), and for nosebleed (Giday et al. 2010).

First published in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13 (1): 366 (1852) The native range of this species is Nigeria to South Sudan and S. Africa. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Solanum aculeastrum is a widespread and variable species found across the African highlands. It is easy to recognise by its markedly discolorous lobed leaves that are almost white below and by its prominent orange downwardly hooked prickles, although these are sometimes absent.

Solanum aculeastrum, the Sodaapple nightshade, goat-apple, bitter-apple, or poison apple, is a shrub or small tree native to tropical Africa south to South Africa, in a wide range of soil, terrain and climatic conditions. It is highly-branched and reaches 1-5 m high, with numerous sharp hooked brown thorns.

The native range of this subspecies is Nigeria to South Sudan and S. Africa. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Solanum aculeastrum appears to be most abundant across Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania, with a second area of common occurrence in eastern South Africa; this may be an artifact of uneven collecting, however. Forest margins, grassland, scrub, and open disturbed places at 1200-2100 m elevation, occasionally found up ...