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Solanum jamesii Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Asterids Order: Solanales Family: Solanaceae Genus: Solanum Species: S. jamesii Binomial name Solanum jamesii Torr. Tubers of Solanum jamesii (with red bean for scale) Solanum jamesii (common names: wild potato or Four Corners potato) is a species of nightshade. Its range ...
Junius George Groves, the son of Martin and Mary Anderson Groves, was born in slavery on April 12, 1859, in Green County, Kentucky. [1] Junius was the third of seven children, three brothers (Peter, James and Robert) and three sisters (Catharine, Amanda and Virginia).
Idaho russet potatoes. Russet Burbank is a potato cultivar with dark brown skin and few eyes that is the most widely grown potato in North America. [1] A russet type, its flesh is white, dry, and mealy, and it is good for baking, mashing, and french fries (chips). [2] It is a common and popular potato. [3] [4]
Cavendish Farms is the 4th largest processor of frozen potato products in North America, [2] and the "largest private-sector employer" on P.E.I. [4] Prince Edward Island is known for its potatoes—the potato industry employs—directly or indirectly— about 12% of the Island's workforce, and contributes over $1 billion annually to the P.E.I ...
The potato (/ p ə ˈ t eɪ t oʊ /) is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile.
The America’s Poison Centers said that there were 2,834 calls in 2023, a stark increase from 2022’s 2,323 calls. Assortment of Red Bull and Monster energy drinks in various flavors. Getty Images
In 1918, there were 41 cases of solanine poisoning in people who had eaten a bad crop of potatoes with 0.43 mg solanine/g potato with no recorded fatalities. [ 25 ] In Scotland in 1918, there were 61 cases of solanine poisoning after consumption of potatoes containing 0.41 mg of solanine per gram of potato, resulting in the death of a five-year ...
Ray Monk’s biography of Oppenheimer, A Life Inside the Center, also includes a description of the alleged attempted poisoning.“In what looks like an attempt to murder his tutor, or at the very ...