Solanum aviculare
G.Forst. · speciesAt a glance
Sources15 archives
Databases and archives Solanum aviculare's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility4 654 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics9 specimens↗
dukesphytochemcompounds
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Solanum aviculare, commonly called poroporo (New Zealand), kangaroo apple, pam plum (Australia), or New Zealand nightshade, is a soft-wooded shrub native to New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. Other names used for Solanum aviculare in the Māori language include pōporo, hōreto, and peoi.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology21
Life cycle & reproduction12
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment13
Physiology & chemistry4
Other traits1
Compounds documented for Solanum aviculare across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds37 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| BETULINIC-ACID | 30,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Solanum aviculare has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Solanum aviculare carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 4615×GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · new-zealand +7
2n 486×CCDB · book-fedorov
2n 922×CCDB · book-fedorov
2n 241×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
2n 961×CCDB · book-fedorov
n 238×CCDB · solan · CCDB · Cave1963 · TreeOfSex · plant
n 241×CCDB · Cave1956supp
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type4 654 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions36 of 50 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Christchurch, NZ | 158 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 124 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 121 |
| Brisbane, AU | 110 |
| Canberra, AU | 67 |
| Adelaide, AU | 61 |
| Wellington, NZ | 58 |
| Smithfield, AU | 36 |
| Auckland, NZ | 30 |
| Armidale, AU | 20 |
| Kew, GB | 16 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 14 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 10 |
| Bronx, US | 8 |
| Batemans Bay, AU | 8 |
| Hobart, AU | 7 |
| Arcata, US | 6 |
| Wollongong, AU | 5 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 5 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 5 |
| NSW Dept of Planning, Industry and Environmentlocation not on record | 4 |
| Kensington, AU | 4 |
| Beijing, CN | 4 |
| Paris, FR | 4 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 4 |
| Parkville, AU | 3 |
| Bloomington, US | 3 |
| South Kensington, GB | 3 |
| Honolulu, US | 3 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 2 |
| Riverside, US | 2 |
| Claremont, US | 2 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Diego, US | 2 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 2 |
| Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Queensland Herbariumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Guilin, CN | 1 |
| Shanghai, CN | 1 |
| Fort Bragg, US | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| Corvallis, US | 1 |
| Palmerston, AU | 1 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 1 |
| Palmerston North, NZ | 1 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 1 |
| La Trobe Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Solanum aviculare was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.