American Black Nightshade

Description

“Pet poisonous” – Toxic parts: entire plant esp. berries Solanum americanum, commonly known as American black nightshade, small-flowered nightshade or glossy nightshade is a herbaceous flowering plant of wide though uncertain native range. The certain native range encompasses the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Melanesia, New Guinea, and Australia. The plant is widely naturalised around the Tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, including Hawaiʻi, Indochina, Madagascar and Africa, possibly via anthropogenic introduction in these locales. Solanum americanum is one of the most widespread and morphologically variable species belonging to the section Solanum It can be confused with other black nightshade species in the Solanum nigrum complex.