Solanum nigrum
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Full name: | Solanum nigrum L. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Nastergal, Galbessie, Nagskade, Nasgal(bossie), Wildenastagal |
| English common name(s): | Black nightshade, Deadly nightshade, Common nightshade, Garden nightshade, Hound's berry, Inkberrry, European black nightshade, Nightshade |
| Synonym(s): | Solanum guineense (L.) Lam. - (1797), non L. (1754) Solanum nigrum L. var. aurantium Maire Solanum nigrum L. var. chlorocarpum (Spenn.) Boiss. Solanum nigrum L. var. elbaensis Täckh. & Boulos Solanum nigrum L. var. incisum Täckh. & Boulos Solanum nigrum L. var. induratum Boiss. Solanum nigrum L. var. nigrum Solanum nigrum L. var. pterocaulos (Rchb.) Batt. Solanum nigrum L. var. suffruticosum (Schousb. ex Willd.) Moris Solanum nigrum L. var. villosissimum (Guss.) Fiori Solanum nigrum L. var. vulgare Solanum suffruticosum Schousb. ex Willd. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | White flowers. Black nightshade is a fairly common herb or short-lived perennial shrub, found in many wooded areas, as well as disturbed habitats. It has a height of 30–120 cm (12-48 in.), leaves 4-7.5 cm (1.5-3 in.) long) and 2–5 cm wide (1-2.5 in.); ovate to heart-shaped, with wavy or large-toothed edges; both surfaces hairy or hairless; petiole 1–3 cm (0.5-1 in.) long with a winged upper portion. The flowers have petals greenish to whitish, recurved when aged and surround prominent bright yellow anthers. The berry is mostly 6–8 mm (0.25-0.75 in.) diam., dull black or purple-black. (from Wikipedia) Stem herbaceous, angular, more or less pubescent; leaves ovate, obovate or lanceolate, sinuate-dentate, more rarely entire, tapering downwards into the petiole, more or less pubescent with simple hairs on both surfaces, up to 4 in. by 2 in.; petiole 1 in. long or less; peduncle slender, 9 lin. long; cyme umbellate, few-flowered; pedicels spreading in flower, pendulous in fruit; calyx cup-shaped; lobes ovate, acute; corolla white, 3 lin. in diam.; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute; stamens equal; filaments short, cylindrical; anthers 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, with 2 oblique pores near the apex; style slightly longer than the stamens, pubescent below; fruit globose, glabrous, 3 lin. in diam., black, more rarely red or yellow. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 16 Dec 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/125 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
