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Every once in a while we have a news article about some kids who find
out they can "get high" from eating nightshade blossoms, occasionally
one dies of it.  I'm not sure what specific species they're
ingesting, it may be the ordinary black nightshade (S. nigrum) or one
of the others that are either native or naturalized here, but the
blossoms at least can be toxic.

IFAS-EDIS has a fact sheet on the garden hucklebrry for any who might
be interested.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MV080

.....Alan.

Quoting Jim Fruth <jfruth@tds.net>:

> Alan,
>     Atropa belladonna is an Old World plant and if it exists in
> America, 
> you'd probably find it in someone's garden.  Britton & Brown
> (Botanical 
> Keys) doesn't list it, not even as a garden escape.
>     If 'your' plant is a common weed, you likely have Solanum
> nigrum.  S. 
> nigrum is a noxious weed, a scourge for farmers.
> 
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm
> Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
> For jams, jellies & syrups:
> www.bberryfarm.com
> (218)568-8483 [Store]
> (218)831-7018 [My Cell]
> 
> All of the ripe fruit photos of Deadly Nightshade (Atropa
> belladonna)
> that I can find in a Google image search show black colored
> berries
> which is consistent with what I recall from the reference books.
> 
> In doing the search though I believe I have been misidentifying
> the
> nightshade that is very common at my place.  I think it's not
> Atropa
> belladonna at all, but rather Black Nightshade which seems to have
> more than one binomial name in the quicky search I just did.  I'm
> going to have to search out a blossoming plant now to see if it
> actually is.  It's a common weed here.
> 
> .....Alan. 
> 
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