Solanum
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Solanum is a large, variable genus of annual plants and perennial plants, forbs, vines, sub-shrubs, shrubs, and small trees. They often have attractive fruit and flowers. Most are poisonous, but many bear edible fruits, leaves, or tubers, and the genus includes several cultivated species, including three major food crops:
Solanum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species - see list of Lepidoptera which feed on Solanum.
Species
- S. aculeastrum - Sodaapple nightshade
- S. adscendens - Sonoita nightshade
- S. aethiopicum - Ethiopian nightshade or nakati
- S. americanum - Purple or glossy nightshade; American black nightshade; Poroporo
- S. arcanum
- S. aviculare - Poroporo
- S. bahamense - Bahama nightshade
- S. bulbocastanum - Ornamental nightshade
- S. burbankii - Wonderberry
- S. campechiense - Redberry nightshade
- S. capsicastrum - False Jerusalem cherry
- S. capsicoides - Cockroach berry
- S. cardiophyllum - Heartleaf nightshade
- S. carolinense - Apple of Sodom, Horsenettle
- S. centrale - Australian desert raisin
- S. chenopodioides - Goosefoot nightshade
- S. citrullifolium - Watermelon nightshade
- S. clokeyi - Clokey's nightshade
- S. commersonii - Commerson's nightshade
- S. conocarpum - Marron bacoba
- S. crispum - Chilean potato vine
- S. davisensen - Davis horsenettle
- S. demissum - Dwarf wild potato
- S. dimidiatum - Torrey's nightshade
- S. diphyllum - Twinleaf nightshade
- S. donianum - Mullein nightshade
- S. douglasii - Greenspot nightshade
- S. drymophilum - Erubia
- S. dulcamara - Bittersweet
- S. elaeagnifolium - Silverleaf nightshade
- S. ellipticum - Potato bush
- S. erianthum - Mullein nightshade, Potato tree
- S. fendleri - Fendler's horsenettle
- S. ferox - Hairy-fruited eggplant, Thai hairy-fruited eggplant
- S. furcatum - Forked nightshade
- S. gayanum - Chilean nightshade
- S. gilo - Scarlet Eggplant, Gilo (Brazilian jiló)
- S. glacum -
- S. glaucophyllum - Waxyleaf nightshade
- S. gracilius - Slender nightshade
- S. haleakalense -
- S. heterodoxum - Melon-leaf nightshade
- S. hindsianum - Hinds' nightshade
- Solanum huaylasense
- S. hyporhodium - synonym of S. sessiliflorum
- S. imcompletum -
- S. incanum -
- S. incompletum - Popolo ku mai
- S. interius -
- S. jamaicense - Jamaican nightshade
- S. jamesii - Wild potato
- S. jasminoides - Jasmine nightshade
- S. khasianum - Indian nightshade
- S. lanceifolium - Lanceleaf nightshade
- S. lanceolatum - Orangeberry nightshade
- S. leptosepalum - Tigna potato
- S. linnaeanum - Apple of Sodom (Hawaii)
- S. lumholtzianum - Sonoran nightshade
- S. lycocarpum - Wolf Apple
- S. lycopersicum - Tomato
- S. macrocarpon -
- S. mammosum - Nipplefruit
- S. marginatum - White-margined nightshade
- S. mauritianum - Earleaf nightshade
- S. melanocerasum - Garden huckleberry
- S. melongena - Eggplant
- S. mucronatum - Pepino
- S. muricatum - Pepino
- S. nelsonii - Nelson's horsenettle
- S. nigrescens - Divine nightshade
- S. nigrum - Black or blackberry nightshade
- S. nudum - Forest nightshade
- S. parishii - Parish's nightshade
- S. pericifolium
- S. persicifolium - Berengena de playa
- S. peruvianum - Peruvian nightshade
- S. phureja -
- S. physalifolium - Hairy nightshade
- S. pimpinellifolium - Currant tomato
- S. pinnatisectum - Tansyleaf nightshade
- S. polygamum - Cakalaka berry
- S. pseudocapsicum - Jerusalem cherry
- S. pseudogracile - Glowing nightshade
- S. ptycanthum - Eastern black nightshade
- S. pyrifolium -
- S. quitoense - Naranjilla
- S. racemosum - Canker berry
- S. riedlei - Riedle's nightshade
- S. robustum - Shrubby nightshade
- S. rostratum - Texas thistle
- S. rugosum - Tabacon aspero
- S. sandwicense - Hawaii horsenettle
- S. sarrachoides - Green nightshade
- S. seaforthianum - Brazilian nightshade
- S. sessiliflorum - Cocona
- S. sisymbriifolium - Sticky nightshade
- S. surattense -
- S. tampicense - Wetland nightshade
- S. tenuilobatum - San Diego nightshade
- S. tenuipes - Fancy nightshade
- S. torvum - Devil's fig
- S. triflorum Nutt. - Cutleaf nightshade
- S. triquetrum - Texas nightshade
- S. tuberosum - Potato
- S. umbelliferum - Bluewitch nightshade
- S. viarum - Tropical soda apple
- S. villosum - Hairy nightshade
- S. viride - Green nightshade cv. form from Fiji: S. anthropophagorum
- S. wallacei - Wallace's nightshade, Catalina Nightshade
- S. wendlandii - Giant potatocreeper
- S. woodburyi - Woodbury's nightshade
- S. xanthi
- S. xanti - Purple nightshade
