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Nightshade Family

Solanaceae

The Nightshade Family contains peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco and more. Most flowers are perfect, however pepper plants are very susceptible to cross-pollination so you will want to isolate them by distance or by putting bug netting over the plants.

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Members of the Nightshade Family include:

  • annuum–sweet and chili peppers
  • baccatum–kellu-uchu
  • frutescens–tobasco, squash pepper
  • Capsicum pubescens–manzano
  • betacea–tree tomato (tamarillo)
  • lycopersicum–tomato
  • pimpinellifolium–currant tomato
  • alkekengi–Chinese lantern
  • ixocarpa--tomatillo (Mexican husk tomato)
  • peruviana–cape gooseberry (poha)
  • philadelphica–wild tomato
  • pruinosa–strawberry tomato (dwarf cape gooseberry)
  • Physalis pubescens–downy ground cherry (yellow husk tomato)
  • subglarata–purple ground cherry
  • Burbankii–sunberry (wonderberry)
  • integrifolium–tomato-fruited eggplant
  • melanocerasum–garden huckleberry
  • melongena–eggplant
  • muricatum–pepino (melon pear)
  • nigrum–common nightshade
  • quitoense–naranjilla
  • tabacum–tobacco
  • tuberosum–potato
Italic words=species, regular words=variety 
*Remember that varieties within the same species are likely to cross-pollinate with one another and you must take proper precautions to isolate these if you or a neighbor are growing more than one variety within the same species.


Click on the orange words to find more information on how to plant and save seeds from these varieties.
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