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|familia=Solanaceae
|familia=Solanaceae
|genus=Solanum
|genus=Solanum
|species=ellipticum
|species=ellipticum
|common_name=Bush tomato, Velvet potato bush, Wild gooseberry
|common_name=Bush tomato, Velvet potato bush, Wild gooseberry
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|image_width=240
|image_width=240
}}
}}
:''This article is about the ''Solanum ellipticum'' described by [[Ferdinand von Mueller|F. von Mueller]]. The plant named thus by [[José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo|J.M. de Conceição Vellozo]] is actually ''[[Solanum cylindricum|S. cylindricum]].
'''''Solanum ellipticum''''' is known as '''Potato Bush''' and under the more ambiguous name of '''"[[bush tomato]]"'''. The [[Arrernte]] name of '''''merne awele-awele''''' might refer to this species, and/or to the similar ''[[Solanum quadriloculatum|S. quadriloculatum]]''. Native to [[Australia]], the Potato Bush is a small fruiting shrub in the [[Solanaceae]] family.
It a small fast-growing waxy-looking [[shrub]] that grows next to creeks. It fruits prolifically the year after fire or good rains. Its fruit have a pungent smell, and the plant can be smelled from some distance away when the fruit are ripe. Like the other "bush tomatoes", ''S. ellipticum'' fruit are edible raw or cooked.
==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
==Varieties==
==Varieties==
''S. ellipticum'' used to (and in some treatments still does) include ''S. quadriloculatum'' as [[variety (botany)|variety]] ''duribaccalis'', but generally these two species of "bush tomatoes" are considered distinct nowadays. Similarly, the former variety ''horridum'' is now ''[[Solanum senticosum|S. senticosum]]'', the ''[[Solanum echinatum|S. echinatum]]'' of [[Robert Brown (botanist)|Robert Brown]] was sometimes treated as var. ''pannifolium'', and ''[[Solanum esuriale|S. esuriale]]'' was included in ''S. ellipticum'' as [[form (botany)|form]] ''inermis''.<ref name = ss2008>Solanaceae Source [2008]</ref>
A few now-invalid names for ''S. ellipticum'' also exist; mostly they refer to potatobush plants believed to be distinct forms or varieties but today not considered to be [[taxonomical]]ly distinct:<ref name = ss2008 />
* ''Solanum ellipticum'' f. ''albiflora'' <small>Domin (''[[lapsus]]'')</small>
* ''Solanum ellipticum'' f. ''albiflorum'' <small>Domin</small>
* ''Solanum ellipticum'' var. ''chillagoense'' <small>Domin</small>
* ''Solanum ellipticum'' var. ''mollibaccalis'' <small>J.M.Black</small>
* ''Solanum lithophilum'' <small>F.Muell.</small>
* ''Solanum cleistogamum''
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
