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| Tomato/potato/nightshade family; Leaves alternate, flowers bilateral or radial symmetry, flowers have five petals; herbs, shrubs, trees; fruit is a berry or capsule; food, ornamental, drug, weed, poisenous |
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| Genus Solanum (from family Solanaceae) |
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Definition
| Potato/eggplant/nightshade; white potato most important; Nightshade (Atropina belladonna) contain atropine |
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| Genus Lycopersion (from Family Solanaceae) |
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Definition
| tomato; initally though to be poisonus (when green) |
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| Genus Capiscum from family Solanaceae |
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Definition
| peppers; vitamins A and C; uses include chili powder, tobasco sauce, bell peppers, paprika, pimento, etc; NOT bw pepper which is in family peperaceae |
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| Datura a genera from family solanaceae |
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Definition
| Jimson weed (hallucinogen - Datura inoxia); angel trumpet (medicinal); |
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