Solanum

***Solanum*** is a genus in family Solanaceae, which is known for three species: tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.

## Subgenus Bassovia

**Section _Allophylla***

- _Solanum granuloso-leprosum_

**Section _Cyphomandropsis***

- _Solanum glaucophyllum_ <small>Desf.</small> – Waxy-leaved nightshade

**Section _Pachyphylla***

- _Solanum betaceum_ <small>Cav.</small> – Tamarillo
- _Solanum exiguum_
- _Solanum roseum_

## Subgenus _Leptostemonum_

Five-minute plant (_S. atropurpureum_) fruit

_Solanum palinacanthum_
Shrubby nightshade (_S. robustum_) flowers

Giant potatocreeper (_S. wendlandii_) flowers
Porcupine tomato (_S. pyracanthos_) fruit

**Section _Acanthophora***

- _Solanum aculeatissimum_ <small>Jacq.</small> – Indian nightshade
- _Solanum atropurpureum_ <small>Schrank</small> – Five-minute plant
- _Solanum capsicoides_ – Cockroach berry, _polohauaiʻi_ (Polynesian)
- _Solanum mammosum_ – Nipplefruit, titty fruit, cow's udder, "apple of Sodom"
- _Solanum palinacanthum_ <small>Dunal</small>
- _Solanum viarum_ <small>Dunal</small> – Tropical soda apple

**Section _Androceras***: 12 spp.

- Series _Androceras_
- Series _Violaceiflorum_
- Series _Pacificum_

**Section _Anisantherum***

**Section _Campanulata***

**Section _Crinitum***

**Section _Croatianum***

**Section _Erythrotrichum***

- _Solanum robustum_ <small>H.L.Wendl.</small> – Shrubby nightshade

**Section _Graciliflorum***<sup>[_verification needed_]</sup>

**Section _Herposolanum***

- _Solanum wendlandii_ <small>Hook.f.</small> – Giant potatocreeper

**Section _Irenosolanum***

- _Solanum incompletum_ <small>Dunal</small> – _Pōpolo kū mai_ (Hawaiʻi)
- _Solanum nelsonii_ <small>Dunal</small> – Nelson's horsenettle, _ʻĀkia_ (Hawaiʻi)
- _Solanum sandwicense_ <small>Hook. & Arn.</small> – Hawaiian horsenettle, _Pōpoloʻaiakeakua_ (Oʻahu, Kauaʻi)

**Section _Ischyracanthum***

**Section _Lasiocarpa***

- _Solanum lasiocarpum_ <small>Dunal</small>
- _Solanum pseudolulo_ – _lulo de perro_ (Colombia)
- _Solanum quitoense_ – _lulo_ (Colombia), _naranjilla_ (Ecuador)
- _Solanum sessiliflorum_ – Cocona

**Section _Melongena***

- _Solanum aculeastrum_ – Soda apple, sodaapple nightshade, goat apple, poison apple, "bitter-apple"
- _Solanum campechiense_ – Redberry nightshade
- _Solanum carolinense_ – Carolina horsenettle, radical weed, sand brier, devil's tomato, "bull nettle", "tread-softly", "apple of Sodom", "wild tomato" (southeastern United States)
- _Solanum cataphractum_ (northern Western Australia, including Coronation Island)
- _Solanum citrullifolium_ <small>A.Braun</small> – Watermelon nightshade (southern United States)
- _Solanum dimidiatum_ <small>Raf.</small> – Torrey's nightshade
- _Solanum elaeagnifolium_ – Silver-leaved nightshade, prairie berry, silverleaf nettle, white horsenettle, silver nightshade, "bull-nettle", "trompillo" (Spanish); Silver-leaf bitter-apple, _satansbos_ (South Africa)
- _Solanum heterodoxum_ <small>Dunal</small> – Melon-leaved nightshade
- _Solanum incanum_ <small>L.</small>
- _Solanum linnaeanum_ – Devil's apple, "apple of Sodom"
- _Solanum macrocarpon_ <small>L.</small>
- _Solanum marginatum_ <small>L.f.</small> – White-margined nightshade
- _Solanum melongena_ – Eggplant, aubergine (including _S. ovigerum_)
- _Solanum rostratum_ <small>Dunal</small> – Buffalo bur, Texas thistle
- _Solanum sisymbriifolium_ <small>Lam.</small> – Sticky nightshade, fire-and-ice
- _Solanum virginianum_ <small>L.</small>

**Section _Micracantha***

- _Solanum jamaicense_ <small>Mill.</small> – Jamaican nightshade
- _Solanum lanceifolium_ <small>Jacq.</small> – Lance-leaved nightshade
- _Solanum tampicense_ <small>Dunal</small> – Wetland nightshade

**Section _Monodolichopus***

**Section _Nycterium***

**Section _Oliganthes***

- _Solanum aethiopicum_ – Ethiopian eggplant, nakati, mock tomato, Ethiopian nightshade; including _S. gilo_ (scarlet eggplant, Gilo or _jiló_)
- _Solanum centrale_ – Australian desert raisin, bush raisin, bush sultana, "bush tomato", _akatjurra_ (Alyawarre), _kampurarpa_ (Pitjantjatjara), _merne akatyerre_ (Arrernte), _kutjera_
- _Solanum cleistogamum_ – "bush tomato", _merne mwanyerne_ (Arrernte)
- _Solanum ellipticum_ – Potato bush, "bush tomato"
- _Solanum pyracanthos_ <small>Lam.</small> – Porcupine tomato, Devil's Thorn
- _Solanum quadriloculatum_ <small>F.Muell.</small> – "bush tomato", "wild tomato" (Australia)

**Section _Persicariae***

- _Solanum bahamense_ <small>L.</small> – Bahama nightshade, canker berry, _berengena de playa_
- _Solanum ensifolium_ <small>Dunal</small> – Erubia

**Section _Polytrichum***

**Section _Pugiunculifera***

**Section _Somalanum***

**Section _Torva***

- _Solanum asteropilodes_
- _Solanum chrysotrichum_ <small>Schltdl.</small> – Giant devil's-fig
- _Solanum lanceolatum_ – Orangeberry nightshade
- _Solanum paniculatum_ – Jurubeba
- _Solanum torvum_ – Turkey berry, devil's fig, prickly nightshade, shoo-shoo bush, wild eggplant, pea eggplant

## Subgenus _Lyciosolanum_

- _Solanum guineense_ <small>L.</small>

## Subgenus _Solanum sensu stricto_

_Solanum erianthum_Jasmine nightshade (_S. laxum_) flowers

Currant tomato (_S. pimpinellifolium_) fruit
Andean black potatoes (_S. tuberosum_)Turkey berry (_S. torvum_) flowers

Yellow nightshade (_S. villosum_) fruit

**Section _Afrosolanum***

**Section _Anarrhichomenum***

- _Solanum baretiae_

**Section _Archaesolanum***

- _Solanum aviculare_ – Poroporo (New Zealand), kangaroo apple (Australia)

**Section _Basarthrum***

- _Solanum catilliflorum_
- _Solanum muricatum_ – Pepino dulce, pepino melon, melon pear, "pepino", "tree melon"
- _Solanum perlongistylum_
- _Solanum tergosericeum_

**Section _Benderianum***

**Section _Brevantherum***

- _Solanum bullatum_
- _Solanum erianthum_ <small>D.Don</small> – Potato tree, "mullein nightshade"
- _Solanum mauritianum_ – Woolly nightshade, ear-leaved nightshade, flannel weed, bugweed, tobacco weed, kerosene plant, "wild tobacco" (Australia)
- _Solanum evolvuloides_

**Section _Dulcamara***

- _Solanum crispum_ – Chilean potato vine, Chilean nightshade, Chilean potato tree
- _Solanum dulcamara_ – Bittersweet
- _Solanum imbaburense_
- _Solanum laxum_ <small>Spreng.</small> – Jasmine nightshade
- _Solanum leiophyllum_
- _Solanum seaforthianum_ <small>Andrews</small> – Brazilian nightshade
- _Solanum triquetrum_ <small>Cav.</small> – Texas nightshade
- _Solanum wallacei_ – Wallace's nightshade, Catalina nightshade, Clokey's nightshade, "wild tomato" (including _S. clokeyi_)
- _Solanum xanti_ – Purple nightshade, San Diego nightshade

**Section _Herpystichum***

**Section _Holophylla***

- _Solanum diphyllum_ <small>L.</small> – Twin-leaved nightshade
- _Solanum pseudocapsicum_ – Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, "winter cherry" (including _S. capsicastrum_)
- _Solanum pseudoquina_ (including _S. inaequale_ <small>Vell.</small>)

**Section _Juglandifolia***

- _Solanum juglandifolium_
- _Solanum ochranthum_

**Section _Lemurisolanum***

**Section _Lycopersicoides***

- _Solanum lycopersicoides_ <small>Dunal</small> – Peruvian wolfpeach
- _Solanum sitiens_

**Section _Lycopersicon***

- _Solanum arcanum_ <small>Peralta</small> – "wild tomato"
- _Solanum chilense_
- _Solanum corneliomulleri_
- _Solanum huaylasense_ <small>Peralta</small>
- _Solanum peruvianum_ <small>L.</small> – Peruvian nightshade, "wild tomato"
- _Solanum cheesmaniae_ <small>(L.Riley) Fosberg</small>
- _Solanum chmielewskii_
- _Solanum galapagense_ <small>S.C.Darwin & Peralta</small>
- _Solanum habrochaites_
- _Solanum lycopersicum_ – Tomato
- _Solanum neorickii_
- _Solanum pennellii_
- _Solanum pimpinellifolium_ – Currant tomato

**Section _Macronesiotes***

**Section _Normania***

- †_Solanum nava_ (?)

**Section _Petota***

- _Solanum albornozii_
- _Solanum bulbocastanum_ – Ornamental nightshade
- _Solanum bukasovii_ <small>Juz. ex Rybin</small>
- _Solanum burtonii_
- _Solanum cardiophyllum_ – Heart-leaved nightshade
- _Solanum chilliasense_
- _Solanum commersonii_ <small>Dunal</small> – Commerson's nightshade
- _Solanum demissum_ <small>Lindl.</small> – Dwarf wild potato
- _Solanum jamesii_ – Wild potato
- _Solanum minutifoliolum_
- _Solanum paucijugum_
- _Solanum phureja_ <small>Juz. & Bukasov</small>
- _Solanum pinnatisectum_ <small>Dunal</small> – Tansy-leaved nightshade
- _Solanum regularifolium_
- _Solanum stoloniferum_ <small>Schltdl.</small> – Tigna potato, Fendler's horsenettle
- _Solanum stenotomum_ (including _S. goniocalyx_)
- _Solanum ternatum_ (including _S. ternifolium_)
- _Solanum tuberosum_ – Potato

**Section _Pteroidea***

**Section _Quadrangulare***

**Section _Regmandra***

**Section _Solanum**_

- _Solanum adscendens_ <small>Sendtner</small> – Sonoita nightshade (Americas)
- _Solanum americanum_ <small>Mill.</small> – American nightshade, American black nightshade, glossy nightshade (Americas, Hawaiʻi)
- _Solanum chenopodioides_ <small>Lam.</small> – Goosefoot nightshade, slender nightshade (including _S. gracilius_)
- _Solanum douglasii_ <small>Dunal</small> – Green-spotted nightshade
- _Solanum interius_ <small>Rydb.</small>
- Solanum melongena L.
- _Solanum nigrescens_ <small>M.Martens & Galeotti</small> – Divine nightshade
- _Solanum nigrum_ <small>L.</small> – European black nightshade, "black nightshade"
- _S. nigrum guineense_ – "Garden Huckleberry"
- _Solanum pseudogracile_ <small>Heiser</small> – Glowing nightshade
- _Solanum ptychanthum_ – West Indian nightshade, Eastern black nightshade
- _Solanum retroflexum_ – Wonderberry, sunberry
- _Solanum sarrachoides_ – Hairy nightshade
- _Solanum scabrum_ <small>Mill.</small> – Garden huckleberry
- _Solanum triflorum_ <small>Nutt.</small> – Cut-leaved nightshade
- _Solanum villosum_ <small>Mill.</small> – Yellow nightshade

## Other notable species

Forked nightshade (_S. furcatum_)

Bluewitch nightshade (_S. umbelliferum_) flowers

- _Solanum abutiloides_ – Dwarf tamarillo
- _Solanum amygdalifolium_ <small>Steud.</small>
- _Solanum bellum_
- _Solanum cajanumense_
- _Solanum chimborazense_
- _Solanum chrysasteroides_
- _Solanum cinnamomeum_
- _Solanum conocarpum_ <small>Rich. ex Dunal</small> – Marron bacoba
- _Solanum cowiei_ <small>Martine</small>
- _Solanum cremastanthemum_
- _Solanum davisense_ <small>Whalen</small> – Davis' horsenettle
- _Solanum densepilosulum_
- _Solanum donianum_ <small>Walp.</small> – Mullein nightshade
- _Solanum dolichorhachis_
- _Solanum fallax_
- _Solanum ferox_ <small>L.</small> – Hairy-fruited eggplant, Thai hairy-fruited eggplant
- _Solanum fortunense_
- _Solanum furcatum_ – Forked nightshade
- _Solanum glabratum_ <small>Dunal</small>
- _Solanum haleakalaense_ <small>H.St.John</small>
- _Solanum hindsianum_ <small>Benth.</small> – Hinds' nightshade
- _Solanum hypermegethes_
- _Solanum hypocalycosarcum_
- _Solanum interandinum_
- _Solanum latiflorum_
- _Solanum leucodendron_
- _Solanum lumholtzianum_ <small>Bartlett</small> – Sonoran nightshade
- _Solanum luteoalbum_ (including _S. semicoalitum_)
- _Solanum lycocarpum_ – Wolf apple, _fruta-de-lobo, lobeira_ (Brazil)
- _Solanum melissarum_ <small>Bohs</small>
- _Solanum nudum_ <small>Dunal</small> – Forest nightshade
- _Solanum ovum-fringillae_
- _Solanum paralum_
- _Solanum parishii_ <small>A.Heller</small> – Parish's nightshade
- _Solanum physalifolium_ <small>Rusby</small>
- _Solanum pinetorum_
- _Solanum polygamum_ <small>Vahl</small> – Cakalaka berry
- _Solanum pyrifolium_ <small>Lam.</small>
- _Solanum pubescens_ <small>Willd.</small>
- _Solanum riedlei_ <small>Dunal</small> – Riedle's nightshade
- _Solanum rudepannum_ <small>Dunal</small>
- _Solanum rugosum_ <small>Dunal</small> – _tabacon aspero_
- _Solanum sibundoyense_
- _Solanum sodiroi_ (including _S. carchiense_)
- _Solanum sycocarpum_
- _Solanum tenuipes_ <small>Bartlett</small> – Fancy nightshade
- _Solanum tobagense_
- _Solanum trilobatum_ <small>L.</small>
- _Solanum umbelliferum_ – Bluewitch nightshade
- _Solanum verrogeneum_ <small>Berengena</small>
- _Solanum violaceum_ <small>Ortega</small>
- _Solanum viride_ <small>Spreng.</small> – Green Nightshade
- _Solanum woodburyi_ <small>Howard</small> – Woodbury's nightshade