Aliens of the Cape Peninsula

A quick guide to aliens recorded as naturalized on the Cape Peninsula

As guides can only do 500 species the list stops in "Solanum" and 80 species are omitted (this is our short list: there are over 800 species known at present).

All 500

Taxonomy
« Back To Dicots Class Magnoliopsida
- Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies Order Solanales
  - 6 Bindweed Family Family Convolvulaceae
  - 16 Nightshade Family Family Solanaceae

orange cestrum ¹
Cestrum aurantiacum

inkberry ²
Cestrum laevigatum

field bindweed ³
Convolvulus arvensis

Field Dodder ⁴
Cuscuta campestris

Long Spined Thorn Apple ⁵
Datura ferox

jimsonweed ⁶
Datura stramonium

Asian ponysfoot ⁷
Dichondra micrantha

Ipomoea cairica cairica

oceanblue morning glory ⁸
Ipomoea indica

common morning-glory ⁹
Ipomoea purpurea

apple-of-Peru ¹⁰
Nicandra physalodes

tree tobacco ¹¹
Nicotiana glauca

Nierembergia hippomanica violacea

Cape gooseberry ¹²
Physalis peruviana

grape ground-cherry ¹³
Physalis viscosa

soda-apple nightshade ¹⁴
Solanum aculeastrum

silverleaf nightshade ¹⁵
Solanum elaeagnifolium

giant bitter-apple ¹⁶
Solanum giganteum

tomato ¹⁷
Solanum lycopersicum

white-margined nightshade ¹⁸
Solanum marginatum

bugweed ¹⁹
Solanum mauritianum

black nightshade ²⁰
Solanum nigrum

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Aliens of the Cape Peninsula

orange cestrum 1 Cestrum aurantiacum

inkberry 2 Cestrum laevigatum

field bindweed 3 Convolvulus arvensis

Field Dodder 4 Cuscuta campestris

Long Spined Thorn Apple 5 Datura ferox

jimsonweed 6 Datura stramonium

Asian ponysfoot 7 Dichondra micrantha

Ipomoea cairica cairica

oceanblue morning glory 8 Ipomoea indica

common morning-glory 9 Ipomoea purpurea

apple-of-Peru 10 Nicandra physalodes

tree tobacco 11 Nicotiana glauca