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Ipomoea aquatica
Ipomoea aquatica (water spinach, kangkong, Ong Tsoi) is a tropical Convolvulaceae herb with floating, node-rooting stems, grown as a leafy vegetable yielding 40-60 t/ha, yet a prohibited noxious weed in Florida.
Ipomoea purga
Ipomoea purga (jalap, raíz de jalapa), a Mexican tuberous morning glory of Veracruz mountains, source of the purgative drug jalap; resin glycosides, purgic acids A and B.
Ipomoea tricolor
Ipomoea tricolor, or grannyvine, is a climbing Mexican morning-glory in the Convolvulaceae, cultivated for its large funnel-shaped blue to violet flowers with a yellowish throat.
Ipomoea triloba
Ipomoea triloba (little bell, trilobed morning glory), a Convolvulaceae vine native from Mexico to Brazil and the Caribbean, naturalized as a tropical weed, prohibited in Florida, with lilac 1–2 cm flowers and three-lobed leaves.
Lycium
Lycium (goji, wolfberry) is a Solanaceae genus of 75–101 spiny shrub species with red, black, or yellow berries, cosmopolitan in arid regions, including the medicinal L. barbarum and salt-tolerant L. ruthenicum.
Mandragora officinarum
Mandragora officinarum, commonly called mandrake, is a perennial herb of the nightshade family native to the Mediterranean, used medicinally since antiquity and known for its human-shaped root in folklore.
Mandrake
Mandrake (Mandragora officinarum, Solanaceae), also called satan's apple, is a Mediterranean perennial herb with a human-shaped root containing atropine and scopolamine; used medicinally since 2000 BC and abandoned after volatile anaesthetics appeared.
Merremia
Merremia Dennst. ex Endl., a genus of twining Convolvulaceae vines native from tropical to temperate Asia; once ~100 species, now 38 accepted after Simões & Staples (2017) split; yellow campanulate flowers, smooth pollen.
Morning glory
Morning glory: common name for Convolvulaceae plants, especially Ipomoea vines with funnel-shaped flowers that wilt within hours. Includes sweet potato, hard-seeded dormancy, Mesoamerican ritual use, and many invasive weed species.
Nerium
Nerium (oleander, rose-bay) is a monotypic Apocynaceae genus whose single species, Nerium oleander L., is a toxic evergreen Mediterranean-to-Myanmar ornamental shrub containing cardiac glycosides, mainly oleandrin.
Nicandra
Nicandra Adans. (shoo-fly plant, apple-of-Peru) is a Solanaceae genus native to Peru and southern South America with three accepted species, the best known being Nicandra physalodes, an ornamental with an inflated fruiting calyx.
Nicotiana benthamiana
Nicotiana benthamiana, an Australian solanaceous model plant, is prized for viral susceptibility from a nonfunctional NbRDR1 gene, agroinfiltration and VIGS tools, and use as a biofactory for recombinant proteins and vaccines.
Nicotiana glauca
Nicotiana glauca (tree tobacco, wild tobacco) is a South American Solanaceae shrub, 2–6 m tall, naturalized worldwide as a noxious weed; its leaves are dominated by toxic anabasine, causing fatal human and livestock poisoning.
Nicotiana glutinosa
Nicotiana glutinosa (glutinosa tobacco) is a viscid Andean Nicotiana species, Galapagos to W. Bolivia, described by Linnaeus 1753; source of the N gene for TMV resistance in commercial tobacco and a local-lesion indicator host.
Nicotiana tabacum
Nicotiana tabacum, common tobacco, is an allotetraploid Solanaceae herb (2n=48) from Bolivia, derived from N. sylvestris and N. tomentosiformis; the leading commercial tobacco species, grown for nicotine-rich cured leaves.
Nolana
Nolana (Nolanaceae, now Solanaceae) is a genus of about 92 species of fog-desert herbs and shrubs native to coastal Peru and Chile and the Galápagos, recognized by its hard mericarp fruits.
Periploca
Periploca Tourn. ex L., a genus of 17 accepted species in Apocynaceae (Periplocoideae), native from Macaronesia and the Mediterranean to tropical Africa and Asia; includes medicinal species P. sepium (Xiangjiapi) and P. forrestii (Heiguteng).
Physalis peruviana
Physalis peruviana, the Cape gooseberry or goldenberry (uchuva, aguaymanto), is a Solanaceae herb of Andean South America grown for yellow berries in papery husks; Colombia produces about 90% of world output.
Plumeria
Plumeria, commonly known as frangipani or dok champa, is a genus of about 11 species of shrubs and small trees native to tropical America, grown for its fragrant, waxy flowers.
Plumeria rubra
Plumeria rubra, frangipani or temple tree (Apocynaceae), a deciduous tree native from Mexico to Venezuela, widely cultivated in the tropics for fragrant white, pink, yellow, or red flowers; IUCN least concern, medicinally used, low weed risk.
Rauvolfia serpentina
Rauvolfia serpentina (Indian snakeroot, sarpagandha), an Apocynaceae shrub of South Asia whose reserpine-rich roots were major antihypertensive and sedative drugs; endangered by over-exploitation.
Sabatia
Sabatia Adans. (rose gentian, marsh-pink) is a genus of 21 Gentianaceae herb species native from southeastern Canada to Mexico and the Caribbean, named for Italian botanist Liberato Sabbati, published 1763.
Solanales
Solanales, an order of lamiid flowering plants with five families (Solanaceae, Convolvulaceae, Hydroleaceae, Montiniaceae, Sphenocleaceae), about 165 genera and 3,945 species, including potato, tomato, eggplant, and morning glories.
Solanum
Solanum (nightshades) is the largest genus of Solanaceae, about 1,200-1,400 species, cosmopolitan, originating in South America; includes potato, tomato, and eggplant, divided into 13 clades.
Solanum aethiopicum
Solanum aethiopicum, African or scarlet eggplant, garden eggs, bitter tomato: a Solanaceae cultigen domesticated in northeast Africa from Solanum anguivi, with Gilo, Shum, Kumba, and Aculeatum cultivar groups, grown across sub-Saharan Africa for fruits and leaves.
Solanum aviculare
Solanum aviculare (poroporo, kangaroo apple) is a diploid (2n=46) Solanum shrub native to New Zealand, eastern Australia, and New Guinea, with mauve flowers and orange berries, cultivated for solasodine steroid precursors and distinct from the tetraploid S. laciniatum.
Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara, bittersweet or woody nightshade, a toxic Solanaceae vine native to Eurasia and North Africa, invasive in North America, with red glycoalkaloid berries and EU-approved stem preparations for mild eczema.
Solanum nigrum
Solanum nigrum (black nightshade) is a hexaploid Solanaceae herb native from Europe to temperate East Asia and tropical Africa, with white flowers, dull black berries, solanine glycoalkaloids, and long use in TCM and as cooked food.
Solanum sessiliflorum
Solanum sessiliflorum, cocona, cubiu, topiro, Orinoco apple, or peach tomato: an Amazonian Solanaceae fruit crop native to western Amazonia, grown at 200–1000 m, rich in vitamin C, iron, and bioactive flavonoids, used for juices, jams, and medicine.
Solanum torvum
Solanum torvum, turkey berry, devil's fig, pea eggplant: a prickly Solanaceae shrub native from Mexico to South America and the Caribbean, naturalized pantropically, grown for small edible berries, traditional medicine, and eggplant rootstock.