NOTE: Don’t blame me if you die. And adding to the confusion is the Solanum retroflexum, fomerly Solanum burbankii. Ingesting a potato, S. tuberosum, with green flesh, skin or tubers
. Pepino melons 'Solanum muricatum' species of evergreen fruit native to South America grown for its sweet edible fruit. Just don’t get this plant mixed up with deadly nightshade or you’ll totally die. cultivated for its edible tubers is sometimes toxic. Most of the year. Cooper,
Anyway, I often eat ripe berries raw–they taste like tiny tomatoes, only sweeter–and have made a black spaghetti sauce, replacing tomatoes with nightshade berries when I could find enough in my back yard at one time. General:
Yes – I love those little cucumbers. It is also a good candidate for edging material and as a denizen of the border. Clinical
1984, in Poisonous Plants in Britain and Their
The berries contain
1-2 cm. The leaves of the S. guineense (gin-ee-EN-see) are also edible. However,
long; calyx 2-3 mm. 1985, report in the AMA Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants
Ah, nightshades… you are so delightfully scary. //