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I am searching for a rootstock or cutting of a Solanum Capsicoides also known as Devil's Apple and as Cockroach Berry.
I read in an old Gardening Australia magazine, that we can create our own eggplant tree, by grafting an eggplant scion into a solanum capsicoides rootstock.
I am having difficulty in locating a solanum capsicoides plant and I will appreciate if you can help me to find one.
I am searching for a rootstock or cutting of a Solanum Capsicoides also known as Devil's Apple and as Cockroach Berry.
I read in an old Gardening Australia magazine, that we can create our own eggplant tree, by grafting an eggplant scion into a solanum capsicoides rootstock.
I am having difficulty in locating a solanum capsicoides plant and I will appreciate if you can help me to find one.
Ruth
Narellan, NSW
18th September 2009 1:58pm
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Kath says...
If you have any tobacco bush growing on your place you can do the same with this, for the standard weeping egg plant. Both the tobacco bush and the Devil's Apple are environmental weeds.
http://www.esc.nsw.gov.au/site/Weeds/Sheets/trees/T%20Wild%20tobacco%20bush.htm
If you have any tobacco bush growing on your place you can do the same with this, for the standard weeping egg plant. Both the tobacco bush and the Devil's Apple are environmental weeds.
http://www.esc.nsw.gov.au/site/Weeds/Sheets/trees/T%20Wild%20tobacco%20bush.htm
Kath
Cawongla
21st September 2009 3:07pm
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Myllika
6th November 2009 8:56am
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Murwillumbah
6th November 2009 11:24pm
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Smithfield
7th November 2009 4:10am
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Murwillumbah
7th November 2009 9:50am
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Ruth says...
Hi Myllika, No I haven't got any of those plants, but here in NSW we have the kangaroo apple which is also a solanos family and I was given a few plants, so i am going to try with them. Kangaroo apple fruit is used as an abortive by the aboriginees, and I was concerned if the fruit of an eggplant grafted into a kangaroo apple would also be an abortive. Now as you can see from Phil's reply, a poisonous fruit plant can be used as rootstock.
Hi Myllika, No I haven't got any of those plants, but here in NSW we have the kangaroo apple which is also a solanos family and I was given a few plants, so i am going to try with them. Kangaroo apple fruit is used as an abortive by the aboriginees, and I was concerned if the fruit of an eggplant grafted into a kangaroo apple would also be an abortive. Now as you can see from Phil's reply, a poisonous fruit plant can be used as rootstock.
Ruth
Narellan, NSW
8th November 2009 9:45am
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Ruth
Narellan, NSW
8th November 2009 9:54am
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Myllika says...
Hi Ruth also Phil as I am not in the East coast area can either of you explain these plants and how high they are I think it looks like the Kampurara ( bush tomatoe/raisin) that grows in the north of SA but that is a small knee high plant, as for the kangartoo apple do you have a photo/discription of it I have some Indigenous plants in my yard I think it is of the solanum family certainly looks like
Hi Ruth also Phil as I am not in the East coast area can either of you explain these plants and how high they are I think it looks like the Kampurara ( bush tomatoe/raisin) that grows in the north of SA but that is a small knee high plant, as for the kangartoo apple do you have a photo/discription of it I have some Indigenous plants in my yard I think it is of the solanum family certainly looks like
Myllika
Nairne Adelaide Hills
8th November 2009 11:10am
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Phil says...
The kangaroo apple is also a large shrub, I don't know if it has been used as a rootstock though. You can tell it apart as the leaves are shaped just like a kangaroo's footprint if you hold it against the palm of your hand. The bush tomato is also a semi-arid plant indigenous to Australia, and a member of the solanaceae family
The kangaroo apple is also a large shrub, I don't know if it has been used as a rootstock though. You can tell it apart as the leaves are shaped just like a kangaroo's footprint if you hold it against the palm of your hand. The bush tomato is also a semi-arid plant indigenous to Australia, and a member of the solanaceae family
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Phil
Murwillumbah
8th November 2009 1:38pm
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Ellen says...
Ruth
the 1st picture posted up by Phil, that was the 2 plants I had in my backyard, but I've chopped them both down already, but both of them still have roots left behind as it creeped over to the neighbor side. So now and again it would spring up back over to my side of the land.
If that is the plant you need, then perhaps I might be able to help you out, next one coming back up I'll save it for you. Email me on emmanuel19972000@yahoo.com
Ruth
the 1st picture posted up by Phil, that was the 2 plants I had in my backyard, but I've chopped them both down already, but both of them still have roots left behind as it creeped over to the neighbor side. So now and again it would spring up back over to my side of the land.
If that is the plant you need, then perhaps I might be able to help you out, next one coming back up I'll save it for you. Email me on emmanuel19972000@yahoo.com
Ellen
Smithfield
8th November 2009 2:58pm
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Myllika
Nairne Adelaide Hills
8th November 2009 4:16pm
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Phil says...
ok, there is no real reason it shouldn't work with a kangaroo apple.
I read about an American couple who grafted their tomato plants onto Datura (Angels Trumpet, Brugmansia) and grew poisoned tomatoes - the solanacea family is full of surprises. It includes some very useful plants such as potatoes, pepinos, capsicums and the like but can be deadly if you misidentify anything. Take care.
ok, there is no real reason it shouldn't work with a kangaroo apple.
I read about an American couple who grafted their tomato plants onto Datura (Angels Trumpet, Brugmansia) and grew poisoned tomatoes - the solanacea family is full of surprises. It includes some very useful plants such as potatoes, pepinos, capsicums and the like but can be deadly if you misidentify anything. Take care.
Phil
Murwillumbah
8th November 2009 4:48pm
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Myllika
Nairne Adelaide Hills
8th November 2009 8:05pm
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