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Solanum dulcamara is a species of vine in the genus Solanum (which also includes the potato and the tomato) of the family Solanaceae.Common names include bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, bitter nightshade, blue bindweed, Amara Dulcis, [3] climbing nightshade, [4] felonwort, fellenwort, felonwood, poisonberry, poisonflower, scarlet berry, snakeberry, [5] [6] [7] trailing bittersweet ...
Several are potentially toxic, most notably the poisons commonly found in the plant species Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade) and other plants in the genus Solanum, including potato. A prototypical glycoalkaloid is solanine (composed of the sugar solanose and the alkaloid solanidine ), which is found in the potato .
Today, American bittersweet is the accepted common name of C. scandens in large part to distinguish it from an invasive relative, C. orbiculatus (Oriental bittersweet), from Asia. [2] Hybrids of C. orbiculatus and C. scandens, entirely produced from C. scandens seed and C. orbicularis pollen, showed reduced seed set and small, infertile pollen. [4]
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Solanum elaeagnifolium, the silverleaf nightshade [1] or silver-leaved nightshade, is a species of plant in the nightshade family native to North and South America. It is common in parts of southwestern USA, and sometimes weed of western North America. Other common names include prairie berry, silverleaf nettle, white horsenettle or silver ...
The woolly nightshade is a multi-branched shrub or small tree between 2 and 4 meters high (but can grow up to 10 m (33 ft) tall in the right conditions). The plant has a strong odor and a life span of up to thirty years. The simple, entire, ovate-elliptical large leaves are up to 40 centimeters long, 30 centimeters wide and are grey-green in ...
Solanum erianthum is a species of nightshade that is native to southern North America and northern South America. [2] It has been introduced to other parts of the world and has a nearly pantropical distribution. [3] Common names include mullein nightshade (that may also refer to S. donianum), [4] velvet nightshade, [5] and salvadora. [6]
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