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black nightshade
Solanum nigrum
Solanum nigrum (European black nightshade) is a species in the Solanum genus, native to Eurasia and introduced in the Americas, Australasia, and South Africa. It is also known as black nightshade, duscle, garden nightshade,Indian nightshade, garden huckleberry, hound's berry, petty morel, wonder berry, small-fruited black nightshade, or popolo. Parts of this plant can be toxic to livestock and humans. Nonetheless, ripe berries and cooked leaves of edible strains are used as food in some locales, and...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.720
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.718
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.690
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.18
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms (Volume 104)
王圻, 王思義 · 1609 · p.18
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 14)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.45
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.162
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 79141.