What is this plant? Is it edible?
A weed about the size and structure of goat weed. Seeds inside fruit look like tomato seeds. Grows around edges of tree cover. Location Bryan, TX.WA
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Awesome stuff Basketmaker, thanks for ID'ing that one. I don't think discussing ID'ing a plant is wrong or 'a joke', and simply asking 'could it be xyz', is part of that process. No one here advocates...
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good point basketmaker II!!....tomato and potatos are nightshade and safe to eat, but don't dare eat the green 'fruit' off a above-ground vine of a potato plant!
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Exactly ....Nightshades can be a deadly family .My youngest brother ate some nightshade berries when he was a little kid. I was young myself so remember the commotion to get the stuff out of his...
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My plants have been mowed down. Thanks everybody for the discussion and information. I probably should have known they were toxic, because even the wildlife does not eat them. That's not an...
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Its about as deadly as Jimson weed ....there is a wild variety of a plant like a ground cherry around here ...but no husk on the berry ...its poison to ..used to know the name of it ..but forgot .the...
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Heh. All this discussion makes me think of the old adage of "everything is edible... at least once." yeah, though that whole family of plants, as everyone has noted above, is pretty frightening, even...
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I am sorry for any confusion my post might have caused. I was talking about Black nightshade in my previous post and comparing it to Belladonna, neither of which are Chipintuff's mystery plant. I am...
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First of all a few picture of ground cherrys . could be better pictures but did not want to go to the bother of getting my tripod muddy .the whole Ground cherry plant and the berry's in the husk .Next...
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I heard they were called something like "wonderberry"? "Flavorberry?" I don't know. Anyway your "belladonna" looks more like Black Nightshade. Belladonna has purple flowers and huge, shiny berries...
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Nope ..I know horse nettle as well , Grows wild everywhere out in the pasture .Jimson And no wonder berry is not the name ... nor flavor berry ...GrrrrRRR than I cannot remember the name of it . Like...
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Okay I remembered the name of the garden berry you can buy the seed of ..but I've never heard of it called black nightshade . Its called Garden Huckleberry ... Solanum nigrum. or Solanum...
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Quills, THe one I thought was prickly was the last one, which I thought was horse nettle. We have ground cherries here, which I've seen in the winter! The red-berried nightshade is actually Solanum...
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At places where I have lived in the past, there has been a thorny weed that looks like these nightshade plants, and it had marble size yellow fruit that looked like little tomatoes. The taste was...
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Neither of the plants I have pictured Sit have spines. I am pretty sure the plant I have pictured .....is Bittersweet Nightshade which can have either white and yellow flowers or purple flowers . go...
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Thanks Quills. Horse nettle looks like it. I am more careful these days than I was back then. WA
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Here is a little more from The Green Deane...below this paragraph. there are so many local names in different areas of the country . I grew up knowing to avoid Nightshade and of course early on leaned...
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Chippintuff.... do you remember what color the flowers were on the plant your talking about with the spines? if it had yellow ones its Buffalo bur . Horse nettle has white or pale lavender flowers ....
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Quills, those flowers had white petals and a yellow center. Thanks for the info. Where I grew up the cows got cockle burrs in their tails and often beat me up with them when I was milking. One of my...
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I would guess its horse nettle then .Yep I had cockle burs to ....Buffalo burs are meaner as the plants and the fruit are prickly and if you walk thru them with shorts on your gonna get scratched up...
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