Solanaceae

Rank: Family

Contacts and URLs:

Mid-South Solanaceae Conservatory (homepage, more info)
"dedicated to the preservation, appreciation and dissemination of the medicinal and ethnobotanical species of the Nightshade plant family."

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Children:

Atropa
- Atropa belladonna (Belladonna)
Brugmansia
"Tree Daturas", now agreed to merit a separate genus.
- Brugmansia arborea (Angel's trumpet)
- Brugmansia aurea
- Brugmansia candida
- Brugmansia insignis
- Brugmansia sanguinea
- Brugmansia suaveolens
- Brugmansia versicolor (Angel's tears)
- Brugmansia vulcanicola
Brunfelsia
Capsicum
Datura
Genus of about 20 plants rich in tropane alkaloids.
- Datura inoxia (D. meteloides; "Toloache")
- Datura metel (Hindu datura)
- Datura stramonium (Jimsonweed)
- Datura tatula (Tolache. Thornapple. Devil's Apple. Jamestown-weed. Jimson-weed. Stinkweed. Devil's Trumpet. Apple of Peru.)
  Still used by Zapotec shamans in Oaxaca
- Datura wrightii
Hyoscyamus
- Hyoscyamus albus (White henbane)
- Hyoscyamus aureus
- Hyoscyamus boveanus
- Hyoscyamus muticus
- Hyoscyamus niger (Henbane)
- Hyoscyamus pusillus
- Hyoscyamus reticulatus
- Hyoscyamus senecionis
Iochroma
- Iochroma fuchsioides
Latua
- Latua pubiflora
Mandragora
- Mandragora autumnalis
- Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
Methysticodendron
- Methysticodendron amesianum
Nicotiana
Source of tobacco, one of humanity's longest-used shamanic inebriants
- Nicotiana attenuata
- Nicotiana benthamiana
- Nicotiana bigelovii
- Nicotiana gossei
- Nicotiana ingulba
- Nicotiana megalosiphon
- Nicotiana rustica (Aztec tobacco)
- Nicotiana sylvestris
- Nicotiana tabacum
  Most common source of smoking tobacco
- Nicotiana trigonophylla
- Nicotiana velutina
Petunia
A species in this genus is reported to be used in the Ecuadorian highlands (S&H p. 303)
Solandra
- Solandra guerrerensis
- Solandra guttata
Withania
- Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha)

Created 3/22/2000 18:56:58
Modified 3/22/2000 18:56:58

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