20210427 09203700 1.0 TRUE Tropical soda apple Native to South America, tropical soda apple is a prickly perennial shrub with yellow fruit. It can be invasive and also host various plant viruses. Tropical soda apple is a major pest in Florida, where it has invaded at least 500,000ha of land and costs landholders millions of dollars each year in control costs and lost production. Queensland has only a small number of isolated tropical soda apple infestations, but the species has the potential to become a pest in coastal and subcoastal Queensland. © State of Queensland (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries), 2023 weeds pests Map layer extracted from Biosecurity Queensland pest distribution survey displaying distribution of individual invasive weed species.