Tobacco family : SOLANACEAE (ASTERIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Brugmansia x candida Angel's Trumpets Sydney, September 2006	Brunfelsia bonodora Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Sydney, October 2006	Calibrachoa hybrid cultivar 'Million Bells Lemon' Grafton, March 2008	Capsicum annuum Hot Pepper Wyee, March 2007
Cestrum aurantiacum Golden Jasmine Sydney, March 2008	Cestrum nocturnum Lady of the Night Sydney, August 2006	Cestrum parqui Green Cestrum Sydney, August 2006	Cyphomandra betacea Tamarillo Wyee, October 2008
Datura species Devil's Trumpet Sydney, August 2006	Lycium barbarum Goji Berries Picture: courtesy of Tree of Health	Lycopersicon esculentum Tomato Childers, November 2006	Nicotiana tabacum Tobacco Wyee, November 2007
Petunia Petunia Sydney, August 2006	Physalis peruviana Uchuva Wyee, April 2007	Solandra maxima Golden Cup Vine Sydney, October 2006	Solanum cinereum Narrawa Burr Wyee, January 2007
Solanum jasminoides Potato Vine Sydney, May 2007	Solanum melongena Eggplant Sydney, August 2006	Solanum nigrum Black Nightshade Sydney, August 2006	Solanum sturtianum Sturt's Nightshade Uluru, December 2008

Solanum tuberosum Potato Wyee, September 2008

Streptosolen jamesonii Marmalade Bush Sydney, August 2006

The plants in SOLANACEAE are preferred foodplants of some Australian Butterflies, including:

Pieris rapae

Hypolimnas bolina

and of some Australian Moths, including:

Spodoptera exigua	Spodoptera frugiperda	Spodoptera litura	Neumichtis nigerrima	Neumichtis saliaris	Athetis thoracica	Amata annulata
Oxyodes tricolor	Scrobipalpa aptatella	Phthorimaea operculella	Symmetrischema tangolias	Tiracola plagiata	Helicoverpa armigera	Helicoverpa assulta
Heliothis punctifera	Helicoverpa punctigera	Australothis rubrescens	Euproctis lutea	Agrotis interjectionis	Agrotis ipsilon	Agrotis munda
Agrotis porphyricollis	Ephestia elutella	Chrysodeixis acuta	Chrysodeixis argentifera	Thysanoplusia orichalcea	Chrysodeixis subsidens	Coenotes eremophilae

Sceliodes cordalis

Nausinoe geometralis

Leucinodes orbonalis

Conogethes punctiferalis

Epiphyas postvittana

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 29 February 2024)