Botanical Family · Solanales
Solanaceae
Nightshade/Tomato family
57 speciesOrder Solanales8+ well-known plants
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.
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How to recognise the Solanaceae family
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Alternate leaves, often malodorous
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Star-shaped flower, 5 fused petals
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Berry or capsule fruit; often alkaloid-rich
Typical leaf characters
Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.
Typical flower & fruit
Typical of the family — flowering plants only; species can vary.
Notable members
Angel's TrumpetBrugmansia suaveolensThe Lady Of The Night, Today & Tomarrow PlantBrunfelsia americanaYesterday Today And TomorrowBrunfelsia paucifloraChilly Plant, Red Peppers, Cayenne Pepper, Long Chilly, Sapnish PimentoCapsicum annuumBird's Eye ChillyCapsicum frutescensYellow Shrub JessamineCestrum aurantiacumDay JessamineCestrum diurnumNight Jessamine, Queen Of The Night, Lady Of The NightCestrum nocturnum
All 57 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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