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Atropa bella-donna, commonly known as deadly nightshade or belladonna, is a toxic perennial herbaceous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, [1] [2] ...
Nightshade vegetables come from the Solanaceae family of flowering plants, which are nutritional powerhouses, packed with vitamins (such as C and K), minerals (like potassium and magnesium), and ...
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 ...
Solanine is a glycoalkaloid poison found in species of the nightshade family within the genus Solanum, such as the potato (Solanum tuberosum). It can occur naturally in any part of the plant, including the leaves, fruit, and tubers. Solanine has pesticidal properties, and it is one of the plant's natural defenses.
While a few members of this plant family are famously toxic, like belladonna or “toxic nightshade,” it also encompasses many beloved edible fruits and vegetables, including tomatoes, eggplants ...
Other members of the nightshade family are poisonous to varying degrees. The aptly named deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), for instance, is so toxic it was used as a murder weapon during the ...
deadly nightshade, belladonna, devil's cherry, dwale Solanaceae: One of the most toxic plants found in the Western Hemisphere, all parts of the plant contain tropane alkaloids [61] – as do those of its equally deadly sister species A. baetica, A. pallidiflora and A. acuminata.
Solanum aculeastrum is commonly known as soda apple, sodaapple nightshade, [1] goat apple, poison apple, or more ambiguously as "bitter-apple". It is a poisonous nightshade species from Africa and only distantly related to true apples. The term "soda apple" probably derives from "Sodom apple", modified due to the fruit's detergent properties.