particularly those harbored by plants from the nightshade family. The nightshade family (not to be confused with the toxic ...

Vegetables in the nightshade family include potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. They belong to the Solanaceae family, which comprises over 2,000 plant varieties. Only a small number are ...

Henbane is a member of the nightshade family and is thought to have been used by Dr Crippen who was convicted of killing his wife in 1910. My Antony is away". Mandrake or mandragora is also ...

While the deadly nightshade is indeed deadly, other plants in the nightshade (Solaraceae) family, such as potatoes, are benign food sources. This sets up an easy metaphor to contemplate good and evil.

Black nightshade is a summer annual, dying off with frosts in late autumn. As with fathen and redroot, it can grow tall and leafy, creating lots of competition with crop plants for light. Black ...