It is a species that one is not born with the enzyme to help digest it so the first time it is eaten the liver has to make a new enzyme and that might be a bother to some folks. Peter. I am most curious about the young greens though. Solanum americanum grows up to 1–1.5 metres (39–59 in) tall and is an annual or short-lived perennial. The state of Louisiana has made possession of the plant illegal. They remind me a bit of the elderberries I used to pick as a kid in the UK. I’m pretty sure it’s what Tracy R is talking about isn’t a vine like what the bittersweet nightshade looks like around here. Its ripe fruit is edible as are its cooked leaves, according to Edward Schelling and Qi-sheng Ma, Department of Botany, University of Tennessee, as reported on page 223, Vol. Again, don’t try it. Its berries are light green or yellow when ripe and the leaves are so hairy that they may feel sticky. And adding to the confusion is the Solanum retroflexum, fomerly Solanum burbankii. It is called Ganeke Hannu in Kannada. I’d post a picture but not sure how to on this forum. I have seen the nightshade with purple flowers growing down by our public beach in Traverse City, Michigan. They’re quite tasty. Maybe in the mountains of Central America someone boils the young plants. In your video, you said if it tasted bad to leave it alone – so I did – but if it is not the S. americanum, what is it??? This would suggest growing some of what you think are either S. americanum or S. ptycanthum and looking at the underside of the young plants. My mother decided she knew what she was looking at. Mum was in shock so I promised to look it up. tiny tiny white flowers. Everywhere says it is poisonous for humans. I presume it’s solanum americanum (no reddish leaves, shiny black fruit). Pretty much a juicy mass of tiny seeds. I do not know about when green fruit are cooked. The green fruits are toxic, but the ripe, black fruits are edible. I didn’t swallow. Because they resembled the Black Nightshades in the Old World they were considered variations of the Old World nightshades and were called … Black Nightshades … all of them. It forms thick vines and could be climbable. There is a non-native member of the Solancea family that has yellow berries when ripe with a very similar morphology. I suspect they also require a cooling period before germination in the spring when conditions are right. It is very good in a soup! Google lists something as Hierba mora though I am not sure it is the same thing. Leaves are fragile, with lots bug holes. Meaningful? [10] This is via high levels of the glycoalkaloids, solanine and solamargine. Media in category "Solanum americanum" The following 136 files are in this category, out of 136 total. I’m curious why the one has such fuzzy, hairy stems. He ended up with a headache. Like the S. nigrum, the S. retroflexum has sepals that turn back away from the berry. Its leaves are used as a green, boiled twice or more like pokeweed. Anyway, I had a half Perfheron, half racing Appaloosa mare who LOVVVVED them. This plant, however, is by several accounts entirely toxic. Deers will find this plant and eat the leaves ,one of their favorate food in South Louisiana. Would you allow me to email you a pic? Solanum americanum American black nightshade This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Special Notes and Information. Yet another example of common names being confusing. That said, 99.9999999 of white berries are NOT edible. Night shades can be leggy if growing through a hedge, but are more of a bush than a vine. Flowers are small, usually two to five grouped together in a small umbel-like arrangement (from one point) on a short stalk (peduncle) sticking out from the side of the stem rather than from the axil (where the leaf meets the stem.) We call it Morel. I’m from New Orleans and this plant is called nightshade, as well as Morel by my family. It is also called the Eastern Black Nightshade and the West Indian Nightshade. David The Good March 22, 2018 - 3:01 pm. Morphological characteristics of Solanum L. section Solanum species 17 Key to the species of Solanum L. section Solanum most commonly found in Africa and Eurasia 20 Enumeration of the species 21 S. americanum Miller. This is the first time I’m seeing others (that’s not part of my family) identify this tasty, bitter green. However there might be a little wiggle room, and that is shear speculation on my part. The berries I am trying to identify have only 2 seeds that closely resemble grape seeds in size and construct. i am a nigerian and an hepatitis patient please teach me how to prepare solanum ningrum for the treatment of my hepatitis, I used the ripe berries of S. americanum the other day to dye a small piece of cotton. It actually is similar in size the bush that has the nigrum berries. In parts of the US Solanum nigrum berries … Just wondering if Solanum elaeagnifolium is edible or has any medicinal uses? For the record the leaves and young shoots of Solanum villosum (vee-LOW-some) are used as a leafy vegetable. Lambsquarters usually have a white dusting, the nightshade does not. How long they boil them is not reported. I am pretty sure mine are edible. In my garden I’ve reared a weed which has established itself in a pot 25cm high neighbouring an ornamental cactus. Solanum nigrum (Solanaceae) ... (Rasbhary), another edible berry belonging to family Solanacae, is thought to be an important source of bioactive chemicals and is a functional food (Hassanien, 2011). Solanum nigrum: berries 8–13 mm wide, with 15–60 seeds 1.8–2.2 mm long, anthers 1.8–2.5 mm long, and inflorescence with usually 5–7 flowers (vs. S. ptycanthum, with berries 5–9 mm wide, with 50–110 seeds 1.4–1.8 mm long, anthers 1.3–2 mm long, and inflorescence with usually 1–4 flowers). The main differences I can tell are the purple flowers, red berries, bug holes in the leaves, and woodier stalk. A third says the Indians, like the Cherokee and the Catabwa, ate the leaves of the S. ptycanthum and held them in high esteem. I don’t double boil the leaves either. Would like to compare pictures, mine are also growing within my cherry tomatoes. And the green berries of the plants mentioned here are toxic. This product is so prized that Tamils returning to the US from a visit to Tamilnadu invariably come back with packets of this sun-dried product. It is the prime potherb. I spent many a day walking pastures and pulling plants. The older the leaves get the more bitter and toxic they are, so foragers should collect younger leaves and tops and not eat it to excess. Where did the much believe notion that NIGHTSHADE kills horses come from? I have a plant that seems to match the description…the pulp inside the ripe berry is GREEN. And often showed my friends how “brave” and “immune to poison” I was. Or that most of them regurgitate the plant matter they consume, chew it again, and swallow it a second time. They just pop up in my garden, on the roadsides.. in empty spaces everywhere. The fourth variety is considered too bitter to eat. The providers of this website accept no liability for the use or misuse of information contained in this website. What do the ripe berries look like on the inside? Yet, around the world for centuries many of the Black Nightshades are listed as edible if not highly esteemed. At present I’m picking ripe dark clusters of black berries which have previously gone green then purple. Solanum americanum var. What was once thought of as varieties of one native in North American ( S. nigrum) became many plants with many names. I don’t know how long she cooks them, but I don’t believe she’s ever double-boiled anything. Some say the adult plant has some red under its leaves. The fruits are used as seeds or a dye. Since most horses in America don’t graze enough to get the wear their incisors were designed for, their front teeth tend to be pushed outward as they age and lengthen. Served over hot rice and sometimes eaten with hands, no utensils. (2019), S. ptychanthum is appropriately considered a synonym of S. americanum. Also the stems of the berries do not emerge from one single point but are separated slightly on the stem, staggered like a spike. The certain native range encompasses the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Melanesia, New Guinea, and Australia.[5][6]. I can only presume it’s native here because it grows in wild places where I couldn’t imagine any non-native planting has ever happened. this website is amazing. I now live in Australia Sydney and have these grow as a weed in my backyard. They uniformly say toxic. The sepals do not adhere to the fruit. I’ve never felt sick or confused or otherwise Ill. However, when I squish them (the technical term) the flesh, while purple and seedy, squishes clear juice, not purple, so I cannot imagine dying cloth with it as one of the other posts suggest and the black (totally black) berries are very sour, not bitter really, just not anything anyone would want to eat intentionally. There are no short cuts. I haven’t plucked up the courage to try eating the berries that have started ripening here at the end of July in Southeast Texas. When Europeans arrived they saw the native nightshades. We also know some small mammals can eat the plant and not get sick but then again squirrels can eat strychnine, so that is no help. That sounds like the Bittersweet nightshade, quite toxic. Looks like a potato flower but much smaller. No doubt it is often confused as an adult with the S. americanum. [14] The ripe fruit also contains 0.3–0.45% solasonine,[14] and acetylcholine, and has a cholinesterase-inhibiting effect on human plasma. I’ve had horses in South Florida for about 20 years. It’s not my department, so I can’t add specifics….but they are quite serious about it as a natural curative…. i cut two berries in half and saw only seeds, no ‘crumbs’ (not real sure what’s meant by that), and they had a tomato smell. I’m in Florida and never knew there were two different shiny black berry nightshades. And you can eat any of the young plants if boiled twice, right? I have made a black nightshade jelly, eaten the steamed leaves, and eaten the berries raw without any ill effects. Your work is greatly appreciated. I’ve read no reports of the S. americanum having stone-like crumbs, which if true would be one more difference between the S. americanum and the S. ptycanthum. On ripening they turn SHINY black. I have not found any ethnobotanical reference to it at all, read what if anything the native used it for. I have hundreds of them. There are about 2,000 seeds to a gram. [12], Toxicity varies widely depending on the genetic strain and the location conditions, like soil and rainfall. Their juice has been used for ringworm, gout and earaches. I guess I am confused.. my plants don’t have any red or purple on the leaves. When details like that are left out one sometimes wonders how comprehensive some “botanists” are. We know some small mammals — skunks specifically — can tolerate at least some of it, and we know it has killed big mammals, cattle, and at least sickens adult humans. “Don’t die trying to be healthy.” Green Deane. I did try one and I am still alive. Unripe (green) fruit of Solanum nigrum does contain solanine and should be avoided, but the ripe fruit is perfectly edible and quite delicious. In my experience, when I let a black nightshade (Solanum ptychantum) plant grow to maturity in my garden, it sprawled two to three feet wide and yielded about 3/4 a cup of berries at a time. Leaves look similar to a lamsquarter. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Insects. The seedlings do not have maroon under their leaves. Thank you for such a thoughtfully produced, detailed website! [11] Other toxins present in the plant include chaconine, solasonine, solanigrine, gitogenin and traces of saponins,[12] as well as the tropane alkaloids scopolamine (hyoscine), atropine and hyoscyamine. no one talks about the size of night shade! It is S. Americanum. They boil the leaves then use them as the basis for a salad. These experts also say the berries of each are edible when totally ripe, either raw and cooked. Berries typically borne erect but fruiting pedicels sometimes reflexed in the Floral area, black to purplish-black (occasionally dark green outside Africa) with shiny opaque cuticle, globose, rarely broadly ovoid, 4–7 (–9) mm diameter, surrounded basally by reflexed calyx lobes; deciduous from calyces The skin of some varieties has a disagreeable flavour [196]. thank you! Like the leaves, they are not toxic when cooked. At this point, I needed to know what the green berry was called in the western world. Thanks for any help you can give. Edible Uses: Fruit - raw. There’s quite a variation and not all black ones are edible. I have traveled back up there but could not locate any plants would really love to make these heritage goodies again. Old timers and 0ld deer hunters pointed out this plant to me. Seeds production is extremely high due to low germination rate. Now for some extensive history, paraphrased as much as possible: IMPORANT: Notice the berries are dull on the S. nigrum. Classification Am guessing a horse or two ate the green berries, or leaves, and succumbed. Don’t die trying to be healthy. You just boil water salt the water and throw it in and cook the young tender leaves until it is dark green. I have simply never found any published, credible source that says it is edible any way. Solanum americanum NC State University and N.C. A&T State University work in tandem, along with federal, state and local governments, to form a strategic partnership called N.C. It is also in medical use. Edible – The fully ripe black berries are edible and were eaten by the Hawaiians. I love the little things. I’ve been sharing seed of this Volga German berry for the past several years so others can enjoy them in traditional Volga German dishes. Reply. With a living local guinea pig alive I had to give them a try. Mind you, they are very, very bitter, and are generally used only rarely, but I’ve eaten them in sour gravies. I would not eat Virginia creeper berries. My, While I have not personally proven this to myself regarding all three species mentioned here — the, Now, why boil the leaves twice? The latter appeals to me but if the S. ptycanthum is a hybrid with the old world S. nigrum and not a native, how long was it around for the Indians to discover it, use it, and hold it in high esteem? Human symptoms of poisoning include fever, headache, a scratchy feeling in the throat followed by nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. 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