HERB - Nightshades

[Jenne Heise]

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Roberta R Comstock wrote:
> Jadwiga has described what may be vining or woody nightshade (_Solanum
> dulcamara_), except that I would not call the leaves heart-shaped.  They
> are more lanceolate with two tabs extending from the base.  (Or she may
> be describing something else entirely.)   She is correct that  nightshade
> does not at all resemble borage.  None of the species of solanum in the
> Peterson Field Guide _Venomous Animals & Poisonous Plants_ (Foster &
> Caras) resembles borage, although most of them do have star shaped
> flowers in shades of white or purple (but not the bright blue of borage).
>   The flowers of deadly nightshade (_Atropa belladona_) are bell shaped
> and it has paired leaves - one larger than the other.
> 

Yup, it's deadly nightshade I'm describing (I think)! Sorry to have jumped
the gun...

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa (Shire of Eisental), mka Jennifer Heise	
jenne at tulgey.browser.net

"in verbis et in herbis, et in lapidibus sunt virtutes"

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