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Cockroach Berry
Solanum capsicoides
Solanum capsicoides, the cockroach berry, known as polohauai'i in Polynesia, is a flowering plant in the Solanaceae family. It is native to eastern Brazil but naturalized in other tropical regions, where it sometimes becomes an invasive weed.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 169055.