No idea, I don't recognise those leaves at all.
I've just had aquick Google (as you do ) and some images for black nightshade show some similar looking leaves - most are like potato leaves but one in particular looks very like yours.
See what you think.
http://www.thetortoisetable.org.uk/site ... ?catID=106
Anyone know what these are?
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I agree, black nightshade Solanum nigrum not to be confused with deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna. Black nightshade was used as a medicinal herb being sudorific, analgesic and a powerful narcotic, but dangerous as some strains can be fataly toxic, particulary to children and animals.
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Thanks. Guess I won't be making wine out of them, then!
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Hi Pach
I had the same plant growing this summer, two of them and like the previous thread at first i thought they were some kind of potato but then the black berries appeared and someone informed me that they are some kind of nightshade - dug them up rather quickly!!! Never had them before - just appeared this summer......
Poochy
I had the same plant growing this summer, two of them and like the previous thread at first i thought they were some kind of potato but then the black berries appeared and someone informed me that they are some kind of nightshade - dug them up rather quickly!!! Never had them before - just appeared this summer......
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You're on the right lines as both plants are related: Potates are Solanum tuberosum After potato plants flower, some varieties produce poisonous small green fruits that look like green cherry tomatoes and which contain a large amount of the toxic alkaloid solanine. Tomatoes are Solanum lycopersicum. If you rub a tomato leaf between your fingers, the bitter odour is the poisonous alkaloids it produces. Needless to say tomato fruits are fine to eat!Poochy Pie wrote:Hi Pach
I had the same plant growing this summer, two of them and like the previous thread at first i thought they were some kind of potato but then the black berries appeared and someone informed me that they are some kind of nightshade - dug them up rather quickly!!! Never had them before - just appeared this summer......
Poochy
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