Nightshade
Solanum dulcamara
Nightshade has bright red berries; both berries and foliage are somewhat poisonous.
Nightshade
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common name for the Solanaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and a few trees of warm regions, chiefly tropical America. Many are climbing or creeping types, and rank-smelling foliage is typical of many species.
that comprises the nightshades are erect, multi-branching, herbaceous perennial shrubs able to grow up to 13 feet in height. Stems are covered with short, dense hairs that are often armed with thorns.
Hairy Nightshade
Solanum physalifolium Rusby
Synonym: S. sarrachoides
Family: Solanaceae, Nightshade
Genus: Solanum ...
Nightshade, Deadly
(Atropa belladonna LINN.)
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Nightshade, Deadly ...
30 (80)cm, Orange Nightshade is a Mediterranean and Asian native, preferring rich, well drained soils in very sunny positions. An annual, fast growing plant with small white flowers in lax clusters and yellowish-orange berries.
(nightshade family)
TOXICITY RATING: Moderate. While the plant itself is very toxic, it is also unpalatable, and rarely does an animal consume enough to cause a serious or potentially lethal poisoning.
Black nightshade is a plant, an annual weed that grows up to 60cm tall, is branched and usually erect, growing wild in wastelands and crop fields. Alternate leaves are ovate deep green with an indented margin and acuminate at the tip.
Menindee Nightshade - profile
Scientific name: Solanum karsense
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
National conservation status: Vulnerable ...
Costa Rican Nightshade
Scientific Name: Solanum wenlandii
Synonym:
Family: Solanaceae ...
Enchanters Nightshade
Characteristics
Tiny white flowers make it visible in the dark wooded areas it habitats.
There are more
Nightshade Family pictures
at the Texas A&M Biometrics Experimental Database.
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Lore: Like other Nightshades all parts of this species should be considered highly posionious.
Nightshade plants include tomatoes, tobacco, chili peppers (including bell peppers), potatoes, eggplant, and others
Common name Scientific name Helps Helped by Attracts Repels
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Onion ...
Nightshade Family, Lycopersicon Esculentum, Solanaceae Family, Florida, Mexico, United States
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Nightshade vines can become invasive. If you permit one in the garden due to its startling beauty, it requires some attention lest it spread & take over & crowd out sensitive things.
The nightshade family includes many other important vegetables, such as chile and bell peppers (Capsicum spp.); Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum); eggplant (Solanum melonga); and tomatillo (Physalis ixocarpa); ...
Woody Nightshade / Climbing Nightshade / Bittersweet
Solidago Canadensis
Canada Goldenrod ...
Jasmine Nightshade (Solanum Jasminoides) - A charming summer-leafing climber, and the most beautiful of the family, hardy anywhere in the south of Britain, where its wreaths of starry white flowers are freely borne upon a wall or house-front, ...
Silverleaf Nightshade, Nightshade,Silverleaf
Species:
Solanum elaeagnifolium ...
Family: Nightshade (Solanaceae)
Flowering: September-October
Field Marks: This shrub usually has spine-tipped branches, succulent leaves up to 1/4 inch wide, and blue or lavender, 4- or 5-parted, tubular flowers.
Bittersweet nightshade
Zone: 3
Since its introduction from Europe, bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), a perennial vine, is found in both thickets and clearings from Alberta to Newfoundland.
American black nightshade; popolo-kikania; apple of Sodom Solanum americanum
American bugseed Corispermum americanum var. rydbergii
American burnweed; fireweed Erechtites hieraciifolia
American eel-grass; tape-grass Vallisneria americana ...
Deadly nightshade, belladonna (Atropa belladonna)
Desert rose, kudu (Adenium obesum)
Deutzia (Deutzia species)
Devil's backbone, kalanchoe daigremontianum (Kalanchoe daigremontianum)
Dewberry (Rubus caesius)
Dill (Anethum graveolens) ...
Atropa (Deadly nightshade) - poisonous; skin irritant
Autumn crocus See Colchicum
Baneberry - see Actaea section Actaea
Belladonna lily - see Amaryllis belladona
Bluebell - see Hyacinthoides
Bottle gourd - see Lagenaria ...
I knew that it was in the same family as Nightshade, and like Nightshade is very toxic. It did come as a bit of a shock to find eggplant and potatoes in the same family though. Jerusalem Cherry is a tender perennial.
The wild potato plant is a member of the Nightshade family (Solanaceae). Wild and cultivated potatoes have very thin skin. Potatoes can have four different colored skins, reddish-brown, brown, white or pink.
Belonging to the Deadly Nightshade family, which also includes the tomato, Brugmansia comprises about 20 different species, nearly all of them poisonous. There are a number of cultivars, some with pink or yellow flowers.
Tobacco belongs to the potato family and, as such, is related to the tomato, pepper and deadly nightshade. The early explorers and conquistadors encountered natives smoking the leaf. Cortez shipped leaf back to Spain in 1519.
Datura stramonium (Solanaceae) - This member of the Tomato family shares many of the proprties of its relatives "Nightshade" and "Horse Nettle".
Eggplants are members of the nightshade family that include the potato and tomato, which makes them technically a fruit but they are generally thought of and prepared as a vegetable.
Tropical Soda Apple, Wetland Nightshade, and Turkey Berry - Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Eastern United States
USDA. Forest Service.
Angel's Trumpet is a member of the Nightshade family. It includes tomatoes, potatoes, and petunias. All parts of the plant are toxic. It is recommended that gardeners use gloves when working with this plant.
Synonyms and Common names: Hyoscyami folium, black henbane, devil's eye, foetid nightshade, henbell (Anglo-Saxon), hog bean, Jupiter's bean, poison tobacco, stinking nightshade, symphonica, cassilato, cassilago.
When Europeans were first introduced to the tomato, many thought that they were poisonous since they are in the deadly nightshade family. Unripe tomatoes have compounds in them that will cause an upset stomach.
Nicotiana attenuata (Coyote Tobacco)
Solanaceae (Nightshade Family)
Semi-desert, foothills. Openings, woodlands. Summer, fall.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument above Yellow Jacket Canyon, October 15, 2006.
The Fascinating World of the Nightshades. Dover Publications, 1987. Republication of 1969 edition. pp. 111-115.
Morton, Julia F. Fruits of Warm Climates. Creative Resources Systems, Inc. 1987. pp. 437-440.
Ortho Books.
Nicotiana glauca. TREE TOBACCO. Bolivia, Argentina
SOLANACEAE (Nightshade family)
Weedy in San Franciquito Creek. Long-blooming tubular, yellow flowers can be seen from El Camino Real at bridge.
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Ashwaganda - Withania somnifera (in the Solanaceae or Nightshade family)
Parts used: Root.
Taste/smell: A complex of tastes and smells: bitter, flowery and earthy.
Nicotiana encompasses approximately 70 species of annuals and perennials, according to Floridata. The species belongs in the nightshade family Solanaceae, along with tomatoes and eggplants. Nicotiana…
Nicotiana Bigelovii Plants ...
Nombres relacionados: Adil ouwachan’ (Marruecos), Angurshefa (hindi), Ballaydour (Marruecos), Beladona (gallego y/o portugués), Belaiki (vasco), Belladona (castellano), Belladone (francés), Bouran’jouf (Marruecos), Deadly nightshade ...
The vine commonly called bittersweet can actually be one of three different species. One is endangered, One is a plant pest - and one is a nightshade and can be lethal.
Growing Easter Lilies in Your Garden ...
In mild locations it survives from season to season on volunteer tomato plants and other related host plants, such as potato, eggplant, horsenettle and black nightshade. Primary infection occurs during periods of mild, 75° F to 85° F, rainy weather.
Common name: apple of Sodom, cow's udder, nyun wenkibobi, soresumba, mackaw bush, nipple fruit, titty fruit.
Family: solanaceae (nightshade family).
Overview ...
FIG.74. - Stamen of a species of Nightshade (Solanum), showing the divergence of the anther-lobes at the base, and the dehiscence by pores at the apex.
Basella alba L. (=B. rubra L.) is pantropical species, plus an East African one and 3 species from Madagascar. Cultivated as Malabar Spinach, Ceylon Spinach, Indian Spinach, and Malabar Nightshade .
2) Ullucus tuberosus Caldus ...
Among the seven other members of this genus occuring in the East, this one is recognized by the long-pointed calyx lobes and bracts under the flower. The flowers of Ruellia species recall garden petunias (genus Petunia) of the nightshade family ...
hummingbirds like it and will use their beak to tilt the blooms up and then drink the nectar from them. This plant does not grow as large as the Angel Trumpets, we suppose because it spends so much energy on blooming. As this is in the Nightshade ...
Water chestnut (Trapa natans)
Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes)
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)
Water primrose (Ludwigia uruguayensis)
Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)
Wetland nightshade (Solanum tampicense) ...
 See also: Green, May, Solanum, Tomato, Potato
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