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What is a nightshade?

What is a nightshade? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
  2. (botany) Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
  3. Belladonna or deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna.
  4. Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.
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Chiles are members of the nightshade family, and are the fruits of the plant Solanaceae Capsicum.
Some nightshade plants are ingredients in potent narcotic medicine and sleeping pills.
Tomatoes are apart of the nightshade family, which include potatoes and eggplants.
For example, the poisonous plant deadly nightshade, also known as Belladonna, causes a throbbing headache, high temperature and bright red face.
New to southern Florida's cypress domes is wetland nightshade, also known as aquatic soda apple.
It is for control of black nightshade, pigweed, waterhemp, foxtail and crabgrass.

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