#Solanum Carolinense

[ghost-symphony]

Horse nettle (Solanum carolinense)

The unripe berries are light green with dark green stripes. Ripe berries look very much like tomatoes, which they are related to. The entire plant is toxic and the stems are covered in thorns(hence the common name including the word "nettle"). Horse nettles aren't related to Urticaceae (the nettle family), however. The flowers vary from white to purple.

#Solanum carolinense #horse nettle #plants

[walks-the-garden]

Here's some of the wild, native, perennial nightshades growing at our local park!

Solanum Carolinense, aka Carolina Horsenettle, very spiny and also toxic to humans, but an important food source for native birds including wild turkeys and quail!

These guys spread through both seeds and underground runners, so they're considered a noxious weed in a few states outside their native range; one site I just found says one plant can produce up to 5,000 seeds, which require cold stratification before they will sprout, meanwhile, the plants roots send up new shoots each spring during the warmer months.

Here's some pictures of the flowers, and immature fruit; from Google we know that when the fruit are actually mature, they'll turn orange/yellow and usually hang around on the plant all winter even after the leaves and stems have died back completely.

Some plants had lavender purple flowers. While others had pure white, sometimes both on the plant at the same time! I believe that like some other nightshades, the flowers start out purple and turn white as they age over the course of a day or two.

If you're ever walking down a park or forest path, keep your eyes peeled! Nightshade/Solanacae flowers are one of the easiest things to recognize, and they come in all sizes, with many of them having at least a handful of different species native to each US state, a few of which are edible, like the wild Groundcherries that can be found all over the United States!

#solanum #solanums #Solanum Carolinense #Carolina horsenettle #no id #will add later #native plants #toxic plants

[deathtek]

7/30/22

#carolina horsenettle #solanum carolinense #asterids #solanales #solanaceae #plant #flowering plant

[thebotanicalarcade]

n134_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Plantarum indigenarum et exoticarum icones ad vivum coloratae, oder, Sammlung nach der Natur gemalter Abbildungen inn- und ausländlischer Pflanzen, für Liebhaber und Beflissene der Botanik /. . biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44261077

#Botany #fast #Pictorial works #Plants #Harvard University Botany Libraries #bhl:page=44261077 #dc:identifier=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44261077 #Solanum carolinense #flickr #Carolina horsenettle #botanical illustration #scientific illustration #radical weed #sand briar #sand brier #bull nettle #tread-softly #Solanum mammosum #wild tomato #apple of Sodom #devil's tomato

[hanasakig3]

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#オニナスビ #アレチナスビ #ノハラナスビ #solanum #carolinense #carolinahorsenettle #horsenettle #花 #flower #ガーデニング #gardening #花言葉 #欺瞞 #悪戯

[konjaku]

悪茄子[Warunasubi] Solanum carolinense

It is native to the United States. The fruit is called Devil's tomato or Apple of Sodom.

This plant is poisonous, has thorns, has strong fertility, attracts twenty eight spotted potato ladybird(Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata,) which is harmful to vegetables in the same eggplant family as this, and causes a continuous crop failure when mixed with eggplant family vegetables.

The Japanese name means bad eggplant. It produces white flowers that similar to eggplants from late spring to early autumn.

These fruits were plentiful on a roadside in the countryside. I have a feeling they will thrive in abundance again next year.

#nature #japan #nihongo #original photography #langblr

[hexandbalances]

I found an interesting, faintly thorny plant with delicately pale purple flower growing around my compost. After a little searching I identified it as Solanum carolinense, commonly called "Carolina Horsenettle", but also affectionately referred to as "the Apple of Sodom" or "the Devil's Tomato". I am still a fairly miserable gardener, but I have been blessed with the favor of nightshades.

#i would pay you to take some of my tomato volunteers #nightshade #toxic plant #native plants #poison path

[carolinawrenn]

Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense). Also known as apple of Sodom, bull nettle, devil's potato, devil's tomato, poisonous potato, thorn apple, and wild tomato. As some of its names suggest, it's quite poisonous.

#apple of sodom! #devil's potato! #wildflowers #flowers #nature #nature photography #summer #july

[silversbotanical]

Carolina Horsenettle Watercolor (Solanum carolinense)

Available on INPRNT

#watercolor #art #flower #painting #solanum

[rjalker]

KK: survey:

what are your favorite plant species? List out as many as you want.

You don't have to link to them (you can just list them in the tags), but you can if you want.

Mine:

Peppervne, Nekemias arborea

Small-flower pawpaw, Asimina parviflora

Common milkweed, Asclepias incarnata

American pokeweed, Phytolacca americana

Common persimmon, Diospyros virginiana

Roundleaf Bluet, Houstonia procumbens

Carolina Horsenettle, Solanum Carolinense

[that-crazy-scorpio-man]

Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense)

#Carolina horse nettle #Plantae #Angiosperms #Eudicots #Asterids #Solanales #Solanaceae #Solanum #Solanum carolinense #nettles #Nikon D3400 #nikonphotography #my flora #nature photography #photographers on tumblr #Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge #medicinal plants #poisonous plants #invasive plant species #flora of North America #wildlife

[cedar-glade]

Solanum carolinense

Carolina Horse Nettle.

Photographed in the upper bend slab falls in Seneca, South Carolina.

#south carolina #botany #wildflowers #plants #solanum carolinense

[dendroica]

Carolina Horsenettle, Solanum carolinense (by me)

With fruits like mini tomatoes

#Carolina Horsenettle #Solanum carolinense #Solanum #Solanaceae #Solanales #plants #fruit #summer #Rutgers Ecological Preserve #Piscataway #Middlesex County #New Jersey #mine

[frankensaint]

Hiii my new shirt just came in from Killstar 🖤🖤🖤

(Thank you @palatial-monstrosity for showing me the shirt ily)

#behind the veil #the shirt has these flowers on it: #Adonis vernalis. clematis. colchicum. sweet pea. aconitum. #aquilegia. solanum Carolinense. delphinium. brugmansia. #and gelsemium sempervirens. and at the bottom it says ‘there are poisons that blind you and poisons that open your eyes’ #🪦 #thinking about supplementing #a few poisonous clothes to my wardrobe

[thebelmontrooster]

Problem Areas and Wild Weeds, ETC. Part 2...

Problem Areas and Wild Weeds, ETC. Part 2…

Hello again, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend and are doing well. This is round two about the problem areas and wild weeds on the farm. I am sure many of you have all encountered similar issues one way or another. Even if you have a house and a regular-sized yard, you still have to deal with weeds and trees sprouting up around your house, fences, and so on. They are more of a problem if…

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#Amaranthus spinosus (Spiny Amaranth). #Ambrosia trifida (Giant Ragweed) #Asclepias hirtella (Prairie/Tall Green Milkweed) #Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed) #Chenopodium album (Lamb&039;s Quarters) #Datura stramonium (Jimson Weed) #Odocoileus virginianus (White-tailed Deer) #Phytolacca americana (American Pokeweed) #Solanum carolinense (Horsenettle)

[syngoniums]

Solanum carolinense (or maybe dimidiatum?)

#solanaceae #plantblr #texas natives #wildflowers