Bush tomato

Bush tomatoes are the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade (Solanum) species native to the more arid parts of Australia.

[1] The fruit of a number of species have been used as food sources by Aboriginal people in the drier areas of Australia.

[citation needed] Some of the edible species are: In 1859, Aboriginal people were observed burning off the outer skin of S. aviculare as the raw state would blister their mouths.

[4] S. chippendalei is consumed by first splitting the fruit, scraping the centre out and eating the outer flesh as the seeds and surrounding placenta are bitter.

[2] Solanum plastisexum, a rare species first described in 2019, is distinguished among plants for exhibiting "breeding system fluidity" – that is, it has no stable sexual expression.