Botanical family · Solanales
Solanaceae
Nightshade/Tomato family
57 species in this family
The nightshade family — botanically important for tomato, potato, pepper, aubergine, and tobacco. Many produce alkaloids (solanine, nicotine, capsaicin) making them medicinally and toxicologically significant. Characterised by alternate leaves and star-shaped flowers with fused petals.
- Alternate leaves, often malodorous
- Star-shaped flower, 5 fused petals
- Berry or capsule fruit; often alkaloid-rich
Species in SOLANACEAE
- Angel's TrumpetBrugmansia suaveolens
- The Lady of the night, Today & Tomarrow PlantBrunfelsia americana
- Yesterday Today and TomorrowBrunfelsia pauciflora
- Chilly plant, Red peppers, Cayenne pepper, Long chilly, Sapnish pimentoCapsicum annuum
- Bird's eye ChillyCapsicum frutescens
- Yellow shrub JessamineCestrum aurantiacum
- Day JessamineCestrum diurnum
- Night Jessamine, Queen of the night, Lady of the nightCestrum nocturnum
- angel's trumpetDatura arborea
- long-spined thorn-appleDatura ferox
- DaturaDatura innoxia
- Thorn Apple, Devils Weed, Datura, Jimpson WeedDatura metel
- Common thorn Apple, Stramonium, Datura, Devil's apple, Jimson weedDatura stramonium
- Tomato PlantLycopersicon esculentum
- Shoo-Fly Plant, Apple-of-PeruNicandra physalodes
- Tex-Mex TobaccoNicotiana plumbaginifolia
- Tobacco Plant, American tobacco, Virginia tobaccoNicotiana tabacum
- violetflower petuniaPetunia integrifolia
- Sunberry, Country gooseberryPhysalis angulata
- Country GooseberryPhysalis minima
- Cape Gooseberry, Peruvian groundcherryPhysalis peruviana
- Showy Chalice Vine, Cup Of GoldSolandra grandiflora
- American Black NightshadeSolanum americanum
- Common Indian Nightshade, African Egg-plantSolanum anguivi
- tamarilloSolanum betaceum
- giant devil's-figSolanum chrysotrichum
- Twoleaf NightshadeSolanum diphyllum
- Silver leaved night shadeSolanum elaeagnifolium
- Common NightshadeSolanum erianthum
- Common Snake-appleSolanum ferox
- Red Bitter BerrySolanum giganteum
- silverleaf nightshadeSolanum grandiflorum
- Indian NightshadeSolanum indicum
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicum
- bugweedSolanum mauritianum
- Wild Brinjal, Bitter Apple, Egg plant, BrinjalSolanum melongena var. insanum
- Asian Eggplant, Brinjal, Egg plant, Jew's apple, Tropical EggplantSolanum melongena var. melongena
- Black nightshade, Apple of sodom, American black nightshade, Black nightshade, Common nightshadeSolanum nigrum
- Jerusalem CherrySolanum pseudocapsicum
- Thornless Turkey BerrySolanum pubescens
- shrubby nightshadeSolanum robustum
- The Potato Creeper, Brazilian Nightshade, Italian Jasmine, St. Vincent LilacSolanum seaforthianum
- Sticky NightshadeSolanum sisymbriifolium
- coconillaSolanum stramoniifolium
- Turkey Berry, Devil's FigSolanum torvum
- Red Pea EggplantSolanum trilobatum
- potatoSolanum tuberosum
- mullein nightshadeSolanum verbascifolium
- tropical soda-appleSolanum viarum
- Poison berry, Indian NightshadeSolanum violaceum
- Poison berry, Indian NightshadeSolanum violaceum subsp. multiflorum
- Febrifuge plant, Yellow berried NightshadeSolanum virginianum
- marmalade-bushStreptosolen jamesonii
- Winter CherryWithania somnifera
- Physalis micrantha
- Solanum denticulatum
- Solanum vagum
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