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Timothy Shortell (brooklynsoc@sciences.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:17:42 JST Timothy Shortell

Ok, gardening mastodon, I need your help identifying this plant. In the Solanum family. A volunteer tomato variety? Or nightshade?
#Gardening #Zone5 #Solanum #Tomato #Nightshade
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1. A volunteer plant in my flower garden. It is in the Solanum family, but whether it is a variety of tomato or of nightshade I am not certain.
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  morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:17:36 JST morph
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  @brooklynsoc Do _not_ eat it. 🙃
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_carolinense?wprov=sfla1
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    Solanum carolinense
    
    Solanum carolinense, the Carolina horsenettle, is not a true nettle, but a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, native to the southeastern United States, though its range has expanded throughout much of temperate North America. The plant is an invasive in parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The stem and undersides of larger leaf veins are covered with prickles. "Horsenettle" is also written "horse nettle" or "horse-nettle", though USDA publications usually use the one-word form. Though there are other horsenettle nightshades, S. carolinense is the species most commonly called "the horsenettle". Other common names include radical weed, sand brier or briar, bull nettle, tread-softly, Solanum mammosum ("apple of Sodom"), devil's tomato and wild tomato. Description Leaves are alternate, elliptic-oblong to oval, 6 to 11 centimetres (2+1⁄2 to 4+1⁄2 inches) long, and each is irregularly lobed or coarsely...
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  Timothy Shortell (brooklynsoc@sciences.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:17:41 JST Timothy Shortell
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  I could wait until the fruit ripens and try it. If I survive, it's a tomato. If not, nightshade.
  
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  morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:27:35 JST morph
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  @jezra This one is. @brooklynsoc
  
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  jezra (jezra@pleroma.jezra.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:27:36 JST jezra
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  @morph @brooklynsoc a tomato is a nightshade, but a nightshade is not necessarily a tomato; and being a nightshade doesn't necessarily mean something is toxic.
  
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