SOLANACEAE
Solanum ptychanthum
Common Name: American Nightshade, West Indian Nightshade
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| habit = larger annual, bushy branched | fruits (poisonous) |
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| this flower shows where this plant gets its specific epithet (ptychanthum = folded flower) | this picture shows the yellow anthers typical of Solanum distinguishing it from the genus Capsicum which has blue anthers |
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| leaves lanceolate or elliptic with entire leaf margins |