Bush Food Australia

This fruit (Solanum Cleistogamum) is native to the central desert regions, and is another of Australia’s many and varied wild tomatoes. Passionberries are an amazingly sweet and aromatic fruit, and when ripe taste somewhere between banana, caramel and vanilla.

This prickly ground cover has mid-green soft leaves,small, insignificant white to lilac flowers are often hidden in its tangled mass of creeping branches.

The amazingly sweet and aromatic fruit are generally 1-1.5cm in diameter and hang in great numbers right at soil level under the plant. The fruit are ripe when creamy yellow, and taste somewhere between banana, caramel and vanilla.

When the fruit fully ripen and dry, they fall off the plant, where they provide a delicacy for every small animal, bird or reptile that are attracted to the sweet fruit.