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black nightshade

DEFINITIONS OF: black nightshade

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n Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible

Synonyms:
Solanum nigrum, common nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry
Types:
Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, garden huckleberry, sunberry, wonderberry
improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries
Type of:
nightshade
any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
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