- Scientific name
- Solanum viarum
- Common name
- Tropical Soda Apple
- Kingdom / family
- Solanaceae
- Genus
- Solanum
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- weed
- Native regions
- ["Argentina Northeast","Bolivia","Brazil Northeast","Brazil North","Brazil Southeast","Brazil South","Brazil West-Central","Colombia","Paraguay","Peru","Uruguay","South Africa [I] (KwaZulu-Natal [I]); Eswatini [Swaziland] [I]; China [I]; Nepal [I]; Bhutan [I]; India [I] (throughout); Andaman Isl. [I]; Nicobar Isl. [I]; Colombia (Caquetá, Meta); Peru; Bolivia (Santa Cruz); N-Brazil (Acre, Rondônia); NE-Brazil (Bahia); WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goiás, Brazília Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso do Sul); SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro); S-Brazil (Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul); Paraguay (Alto Paraguay, Alto Paraná, Caazapa, Bocqueron, Cordillera, Guaira, Paraguari, San Pedro); Uruguay (Montevideo, Rivera, Tacuarembo, Trienta y Tres); Argentina (Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa Prov., Misiones)","Leticia","Global","North America","BR","conterminous 48 United States","VN","ZA","Eswatini","KwaZulu-Natal"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Alabama","Assam","China South-Central","China Southeast","DR Congo","East Himalaya","Eswatini","Florida","Georgia","Honduras","India","Korea","KwaZulu-Natal","Laos","Lesser Sunda Is.","Louisiana","Mexico Central","Mississippi","Myanmar","Nepal","New South Wales","North Carolina","Pennsylvania","Queensland","Sierra Leone","South Australia","South Carolina","Taiwan","Tennessee","Texas","Thailand","Vietnam","West Himalaya","AU","Belgium","Flemish Region","BT","the Democratic Republic of the Congo","CD","CF","CN","CU","France","Great Britain","GE","HN","IN","IR","MM","MX","The Netherlands","NP","SZ","TW"]