Solanaceae
Of asterid dicot family and Polemoniales. May also be referred to as family Solanaceae and potato family.
Large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra.
This concept's ID is @1~64524
Asterid Dicot Genus
- Solanum
Type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet.
- genus Capsicum
Chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot...
- genus Nierembergia
Genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers.
- Brugmansia
Includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets.
- Cestrum
Genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs.
- Hyoscyamus
Genus of poisonous herbs: henbane.
- Lycium
Deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical re...
- Physalis
Ground cherries.
- Atropa
Belladonna.
- genus Browallia
Small genus of tropical South American annuals.
- Brunfelsia
Genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike...
- Cyphomandra
Tree tomato.
- Datura
Thorn apple.
- Fabiana
Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
- Lycopersicon
Tomatoes.
- Mandragora
A genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae.
- Nicandra
Sturdy annual of Peru.
- Nicotiana
American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage.
- genus Petunia
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America.
- Salpichroa
Herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs.
- genus Salpiglossis
Small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers.
- genus Schizanthus
Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers.
- Scopolia
Genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids.
- Solandra
Shrubby climbers of tropical America.
- Streptosolen
One species: marmalade bush.