potato family
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Large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous;
Includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra (synset 112912986)is a type of: asterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsmember holonym:- genus solanum, solanum - type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet
- atropa, genus atropa - belladonna
- genus browallia - small genus of tropical South American annuals
- brunfelsia, genus brunfelsia - genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits
- brugmansia, genus brugmansia - includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets
- capsicum, genus capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers
- cestrum, genus cestrum - genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs
- cyphomandra, genus cyphomandra - tree tomato
- datura, genus datura - thorn apple
- fabiana, genus fabiana - genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs
- genus hyoscyamus, hyoscyamus - genus of poisonous herbs: henbane
- genus lycium, lycium - deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions
- genus lycopersicon, genus lycopersicum, lycopersicon, lycopersicum - tomatoes
- genus mandragora, mandragora - a genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae
- genus nicandra, nicandra - sturdy annual of Peru
- genus nicotiana, nicotiana - American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage
- genus nierembergia - genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers
- genus petunia, petunia - annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America
- genus physalis, physalis - ground cherries
- genus salpichroa, salpichroa - herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs
- genus salpiglossis - small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers
- genus schizanthus - Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers
- genus scopolia, scopolia - genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids
- genus solandra, solandra - shrubby climbers of tropical America
- genus streptosolen, streptosolen - one species: marmalade bush
belongs to: order polemoniales, polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophularialessame as: family solanaceae, solanaceae
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