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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Taxobox<br />
| color = lightgreen<br />
| name = Earleaf nightshade<br />
| image = Solanum sodomeum.JPG<br />
| image_caption = Solanum linnaeanum<br />
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae<br />
| divisio = [[flowering plants|Tracheobionta]]<br />
| classis = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]<br />
| subclassis = [[Asteridae]]<br />
| ordo = [[Solanales]]<br />
| familia = [[Solanaceae]]<br />
| genus = '''''[[Solanum]]'''''<br />
| species = '''''S. linnaeanum'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Solanum linnaeanum''<br />
| binomial_authority = ?<br />
}}<br />
:''For other uses, please see [[Apple of Sodom (disambiguation)]].''<br />
'''''Solanum linnaeanum''''', (also known as Apple of Sodom (not to be confused with ''[[Apple of Sodom|Calotropis procera]]''), Devil's Apple, ''Solanum sodomeum'' and ''Solanum hermanii'') is a species of poisonous plant bearing tomato-like fruit native to South Africa<ref name=Native_origin>{{cite web | author = Australian Weeds Committee |year = 2004 | url = http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedident.cgi?tpl=plant.tpl&state=&s=0&ibra=&card=S18 | title = Apple of Sodom | work = Weeds Australia | accessdate = May 27 | accessyear = 2006 }}</ref> and considered to be an [[invasive species]] in Australia,<ref name=Declared_plant_in_Western_Australia>{{cite web | url = http://agwdsrv02.agric.wa.gov.au/dps/version02/01_plantview.asp?page=1&contentID=4& | title = Apple of Sodom (Solanum linnaeanum) | work = Declared plants list | publisher = Department of Agriculture and Food, Government of Western Australia | accessdate = May 27 | accessyear = 2006}}</ref> and New Zealand.<ref name=IVS_NZ>{{cite web | first = Bruce | last = Roy | coauthors = Ian Popay, Paul Champion, Trevor James & Anis Rahman | year = 2004 | url = http://www.rnzih.org.nz/pages/solanumlinnaeanum.htm | title = Solanum linnaeanum / apple of Sodom | work = An Illustrated Guide to Common Weeds of New Zealand (reproduced from '''Common Weeds in New Zealand''') | publisher = Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (with permission from the New Zealand Plant Protection Society) | accessdate = May 27 | accessyear = 2006}}</ref><br />
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Solbec Pharmaceuticals has developed [[Coramsine]]&reg;,<ref name=but_it_has_its_uses>{{cite web | url = http://www.solbec.com.au/general.asp?PAGE_ID=10 | title = Coramsine&reg; Manufacturing and Operations | work = Coramsine&reg; | publisher = Solbec Pharmaceuticals | accessdate = | accessyear = 2006}}</ref> a 1:1 mixture of [[solamargine]] and [[solasonine]], alkaloids extracted from ''Solanum linnaeanum'', that has been tested in patients with advanced solid tumors.<ref name=and_what_uses_they_are>{{cite journal | first = M. | last = Millward | coauthors = A. Powell, S. Tyson, P. Daly, R. Ferguson and S. Carter | month = June | year = 2005 | title = Phase I trial of coramsine (SBP002) in patients with advanced solid tumors | journal = Journal of Clinical Oncology | volume = 23 | issue = 16S | pages = 3105 | url = http://meeting.jco.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/16_suppl/3105 | accessdate = 2006-05-27}}</ref><br />
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