nightshade

1. Any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum;
   Most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit (synset 112914223)
   is a type of: ligneous plant, woody plant - a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems
   subtypes:

   • kangaroo apple, poroporo, solanum aviculare - Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit
   • ball nettle, ball nightshade, bull nettle, horse nettle, solanum carolinense - coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States
   • bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade - poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
   • prairie berry, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, solanum elaeagnifolium, trompillo, white horse nettle - weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America
   • african holly, solanum giganteum - woolly-stemmed biennial arborescent shrub of tropical Africa and southern Asia having silvery-white prickly branches, clusters of blue or white flowers, and bright red berries resembling holly berries
   • black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry, solanum nigrum - Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
   • jerusalem cherry, madeira winter cherry, solanum pseudocapsicum, winter cherry - small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
   • buffalo bur, solanum rostratum - North American nightshade with prickly foliage and racemose yellow flowers
   belongs to: genus solanum, solanum - type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet

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