Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
They have white petal-like sepals without true petals, on white pedicels and peduncles in an upright or drooping raceme, which darken as the plant fruits. Blooms first appear in early summer and continue into early fall. Fruit: A shiny dark purple berry held in racemose clusters on pink pedicels with a pink peduncle. Pedicels without berries ...
The potentially deadly ripe fruit can be distinguished from the similar Solanum nigrum by its larger berry size, its much larger calyx than S. nigrum that extends wider than the fruit (either encasing it or extending flat), and that A. bella-donna bears its berries singly, whilst S. nigrum has its berries in clusters located on a descending ...
The poisonous Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense) fruit also resembles tomatoes. Its common name, devil’s potato, is a dead giveaway. Other members of the nightshade family are poisonous ...
Its fruits are green berries that look like very small tomatoes. As the fruit ripens, it turns yellow and looks wrinkled. Leaves : The leaves are alternate, oblong and covered on both sides with ...
The poisonous fruits superficially resemble blackberries and may mistakenly be eaten as such. Can be fatal in children. [citation needed] Cytisus scoparius: broom, common broom Fabaceae: Contains toxic alkaloids that depress the heart and nervous system. [99] The alkaloid sparteine is a class 1a antiarrhythmic agent, a sodium channel blocker.
Solanum nigrum, the European black nightshade or simply black nightshade or blackberry nightshade, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae, native to Eurasia and introduced in the Americas, Australasia, and South Africa.
A non-native plant is known to poison — and often kill — hundreds of birds in North Carolina each winter. ... Their gorgeous red berries look like great bird snacks, but the berries are filled ...
Like raspberries, it is not a true berry, but instead an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core. The drupelets may be carefully removed intact, separately from the core, when picked, leaving a hollow fruit which bears a resemblance to a thimble , perhaps giving the plant its name.