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Nightshade is a family of plants, not an individual plant.

Examples of edible berries in the Nightshade family:

  • Tomatoes
  • Chillies
  • Black Nightshade
  • Tomatillos
  • Wonderberries
  • Ground Cherries
  • Eggplants
  • Wolfberry/Goji
  • Garden Huckleberry

Examples of non-edible berries in the Nightshade family:

  • Belladonna/Deadly Nightshade
  • Mandrake berries
  • Henbane/Stinking Nightshade

A lot of plants in the Nightshade family get erroneously labeled as poisonous due to the fact that many of them contain varying amounts of a toxin called solanine, but there is no real evidence that unconcentrated solanine can poison humans.

For example, all of the poisonous berries I had listed were poisonous not due to solanine; but by other toxins.

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