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gunyang Bot.|ˈgʌnjæŋ|
[Native name.]
An Australian shrub, Solanum laciniatum or S. vescum, which bears edible orange fruits; cf. kangaroo apple (s.v. kangaroo n. 4 b).
1867W. Woolls Contrib. Flora Austral. 125 The native name of this fruit is ‘gunyang’. 1874Lindley & Moore Treas. Bot. Suppl., Gunyang, Solanum vescum, known by this name in Victoria, where the native tribes collect its fruits eagerly as an article of food. 1888D. Macdonald Gum Boughs 222 A dwarfed ti-tree, clinging low about the ground, like the gunyang or kangaroo apple. 1911W. R. Guilfoyle Austral. Plants 334 Solanum aviculare ‘Kangaroo Apple’. ‘Bulli Bulli’, or ‘Gunyang’ (herbaceous shrub, 6 to 8 ft.). 1965Austral. Encycl. VIII. 196/1 S[olanum] aviculare, ranging almost across the temperate part of the continent..is the kangaroo apple—called gunyang by former Victorian aborigines and poro⁓poro or kohoho by the Maoris. |