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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).

Long Spined Thorn Apple 1
Datura ferox
jimsonweed 2
Datura stramonium
apple-of-Peru 3
Nicandra physalodes
Cape gooseberry 4
Physalis peruviana
grape ground-cherry 5
Physalis viscosa
soda-apple nightshade 6
Solanum aculeastrum
silverleaf nightshade 7
Solanum elaeagnifolium
giant bitter-apple 8
Solanum giganteum
tomato 9
Solanum lycopersicum
white-margined nightshade 10
Solanum marginatum
bugweed 11
Solanum mauritianum
black nightshade 12
Solanum nigrum

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