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What is the genus of plants in the nightshade family including potato tomato and aubergine?
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The Solanum genus contains the eggplant, tomato and potato along with others such as woody nightshade.
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What is the common name of flowering plants including potato tomato and aubergine?
nightshade
What is the family of potato?
Solanaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes a number of important agricultural crops. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant. The family is also informally known as the nightshade or potato family. See wiki for more information.
What are the effects of the plant Nightshade?
Some effects of Nightshade plants/ vegetables (which contains substance called alkaloids) are as follows: digestive and nervous system malfunction and swollen.
What family of plants does peppers belong to?
The term peppers is rather inprecise, for instance: Chili Pepper is a member of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Black pepper is a member of the family, Piperaceae. (Note: Black, white and green pepper is produced from the seeds off the same plant, but processed differently.)
Why would yellow aubergines grow on a purple aubergine plant?
The plants may have been mislabeled when sold, or the seeds crossed last season.
What is the common name of flowering plants including potato tomato and aubergine?
nightshade
Genus of plants including potato and aubergine?
solanum
What is solanine?
Solanine is a toxic alkaloid found in plants of the nightshade family (including potatoes). It has pesticidal and fungicidal properties.
Scientific name of capsicum in science?
Capsicum is the scientific name of the genus; Capcisceae is the tribe. The family is Solanaceae, which means 'nightshade', and this family includes nightshade, potatoes, tomatoes, datura, aubergine, and so on. An amazing range of very toxic plants, from many of which we obtain vital medicines, or which bear delicious fruit which is safe to eat.
What is the scientific name for a Common Nightshade?
The scientific name for Common Nightshade is Solanum nigrum.
Is asparagus in the nightshade family?
Nightshade is any plant of the genus Solanum which has about 2,300 species, and certain other plants of the same family and other families. The species usually called nightshade in North American and England is Solanum dulcamara. Other species include: black nightshade (S. nigrum), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), and Enchanter's nightshade (of the genus Circaea).Some popular edible plants that are in the group are tomatoes, potatoes, and bell peppers.
What is nicotine a form of?
Nicotine is a parasympathomimetic alkaloid found in the nightshade family of plants. It is a stimulant drug.
What is the family of potato?
Solanaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes a number of important agricultural crops. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant. The family is also informally known as the nightshade or potato family. See wiki for more information.
What is the definition of 'nightshade vegetable'?
Nightshade vegetables are plants in the genus Solanum in the Solanaceae family. There are approximately 2,300 species that includes tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, tobacco, and pepper.
Is nicotine a synthetic drug?
No, it is a naturally occurring compound found in the Nightshade family of plants, which includes tobacco.
Where does atropine come from?
Atropine is a tropane alkaloid extracted from the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other plants of the family Solanaceae
Which member of the potato tobacco and tomato family of plants has a purple flower and lethal black berries?
Black Nightshade
