Ripe golden Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, on a dark background
Purple and yellow flower of Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, on a prickly stem
Mature Nipple Fruit plant, Solanum mammosum, carrying yellow and orange fruit
Close-up of ripe golden Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, on the plant
Golden Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, displayed as an ornamental Lunar New Year fruit
Young Nipple Fruit seedling, Solanum mammosum, growing in a pot
Ripe golden Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, on a dark background
Purple and yellow flower of Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, on a prickly stem
Mature Nipple Fruit plant, Solanum mammosum, carrying yellow and orange fruit
Close-up of ripe golden Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, on the plant
Golden Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, displayed as an ornamental Lunar New Year fruit
Young Nipple Fruit seedling, Solanum mammosum, growing in a pot
Ripe golden Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, on a dark background
Purple and yellow flower of Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, on a prickly stem
Mature Nipple Fruit plant, Solanum mammosum, carrying yellow and orange fruit
Close-up of ripe golden Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, on the plant
Golden Nipple Fruit, Solanum mammosum, displayed as an ornamental Lunar New Year fruit
Young Nipple Fruit seedling, Solanum mammosum, growing in a pot

Nipple Fruit Seeds Solanum mammosum

Australian Grown • Organically Cultivated • Sculptural Golden Fruit

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Nipple Fruit Seeds

Solanum mammosum

In Chinese culture, Nipple Fruit is known as “Five Generations Under One Roof”. Its clustered golden projections are associated with successive generations of a family living together in harmony, making the extraordinary fruit an auspicious Lunar New Year decoration symbolising family unity, longevity and prosperity.

Product Highlights

  • Pack Size: Standard Pack with 10 seeds or Best Value Pack with 30 seeds
  • Botanical Name: Solanum mammosum
  • Seed Origin: Australian grown from organically cultivated plants
  • Plant Type: Frost-tender tropical shrub that can also be grown as a warm-season annual in cooler climates
  • Mature Size: Commonly around 1 metre tall, with plants capable of reaching approximately 1.5 to 2 metres in favourable tropical conditions
  • Flowers & Fruit: Purple star-shaped flowers followed by extraordinary sculptural fruit that ripens from green to brilliant golden yellow or orange

About Nipple Fruit

Few plants produce fruit quite as strange or immediately recognisable as Nipple Fruit.

Solanum mammosum develops into a bushy tropical ornamental with broad foliage, purple star-shaped flowers and a highly distinctive fruit form.

The glossy fruits begin green before ripening to brilliant yellow or golden orange. Each develops a prominent projection at its tip together with several rounded projections around its base, creating the unmistakable form behind common names including Nipple Fruit, Cow's Udder, Nipplefruit and Fox Face.

Native to tropical America but now cultivated in warm regions around the world, the species is prized for the novelty and sculptural quality of its long-lasting ornamental fruit.

These viable seeds are supplied specifically for ornamental horticultural cultivation.

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Starter Pack • 10 Seeds

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