For Solanum centrale, also sometimes called the bush tomato, see Australian desert raisin.

Bush tomato (Solanum ellipticum and Solanum cleistogarnum) are plants native to the more arid parts of Australia. They have been used as food sources by Central Australian Aboriginal people for many thousands of years. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ... Families at least the following: Solanaceae Convolvulaceae and others, varying between classification systems; for details see text The Solanales are an order of flowering plants, included in the asterid group of dicotyledons. ... Genera Acnistus Atropa (deadly nightshade) Brugmansia (angels trumpet) Calibrachoa Capsicum (chile peppers) Cestrum Chamaesaracha Combera Crenidium Cuatresia Cyphanthera Cyphomandra Datura (jimsonweed) Hyoscyamus (henbane) Iochroma Lycium (boxthorn) Mandragora (mandrake) Nicandra Nicotiana (tobacco) Nolana Petunia Physalis (tomatillo) Scopolia Solandra Solanum (tomato, potato, eggplant) Streptosolen Wikispecies has information related to: Solanaceae The... Species See text. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... John McConnell Black (28 April 1855 - 2 December 1951) was a Scottish botanist who emigrated to Australia in 1877 and eventually documented and illustrated thousands of flora in South Australia in the early 20th century. ... Binomial name Solanum centrale J.M.Black Australian desert raisin (Solanum centrale) is a plant native to the more arid parts of Australia. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta... Central Australia is a term used to describe the area of land surrounding and including Alice Springs in Australia. ... See also, List of Indigenous Australian group names Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ...

In the Central Australian language of Arrernte they are called Merne awele-awele (S. ellipticum) and Merne mwanyerne (S. cleistogamum). Arrente is both a language, a group of people, and an area of land in Central Australia. ...

Bush tomato is a small fast-growing shrub that fruits prolifically the year after fire or good rains. A broom shrub in flower A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ...

Solanum ellipticum is a waxy looking plant that grows next to creeks. It has a pungent smell and can be smelled from some distance when the fruit is ripe.

Sollanum cleistogamum turns yellow when ripe, and sometimes purple. The fruit is hard and green when unripe. Again, they have a pungent fragrance when ripe.

Aborigines eat them raw or put them on the hot earth by the fire, sprinkle some water on them and cover them up to cook them. Mardu people would skewer them and dry them so the the food was readily transportable. In Mardu they are known as Wamurla, while the Warlpiri know them as Wanakiji. Martu are an Australian Aboriginal people of the Western Desert. ... A skewer is also a tactic in chess. ... Location of Warlpiri (light green) in the Northern Territory The Warlpiri are a group of Indigenous Australians, many of whom speak the Warlpiri language. ...