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The tasty, weed-like desert raisin plant is as big as a carpark

  • Written by Dr Angela Pattison, Research scientist at Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
The tasty, weed-like desert raisin plant is as big as a carparkThe desert raisin is a member of Australia’s native bush tomato family. Mark Marathon/Wikimedia, CC BY

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The species Solanum centrale, also known as kutjera in several Aboriginal languages, or the desert raisin in English,...

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