page_title: Solanum
section_title: Subgenus Solanum sensu stricto
hierarchical_section_title: Solanum / Systematics / Subgenus Solanum sensu stricto
caption_attribution_description: Solanum laxum (Syn. Solanum jasminoides) "Album" photographed at Garden Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
context_page_description: Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance, the potato, the tomato and the eggplant. It also contains the nightshades and horse nettles, as well as numerous plants cultivated for their ornamental flowers and fruit.
  Solanum species show a wide range of growing habits, such as annual and perennials, vines, subshrubs, shrubs, and small trees. Many formerly independent genera like Lycopersicon and Cyphomandra are now included in Solanum as subgenera or sections. Thus, the genus today contains roughly 1,500–2,000 species.
context_section_description: 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 D.Don – 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 Spreng. – Jasmine nightshade
  Solanum leiophyllum
  Solanum seaforthianum Andrews – Brazilian nightshade
  Solanum triquetrum Cav. – 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 L. – Twin-leaved nightshade
  Solanum pseudocapsicum – Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, "winter cherry" (including S. capsicastrum)
  Solanum pseudoquina (including S. inaequale Vell.)
  Section Juglandifolia
  Solanum juglandifolium
  Solanum ochranthum
  Section Lemurisolanum
  Section Lycopersicoides
  Solanum lycopersicoides Dunal – Peruvian wolfpeach
  Solanum sitiens
  Section Lycopersicon
  Solanum arcanum Peralta – "wild tomato"
  Solanum chilense
  Solanum corneliomulleri
  Solanum huaylasense Peralta
  Solanum peruvianum L. – Peruvian nightshade, "wild tomato"
  Solanum cheesmaniae (L.Riley) Fosberg
  Solanum chmielewskii
  Solanum galapagense S.C.Darwin & Peralta
  Solanum habrochaites
  Solanum lycopersicum – Tomato
  Solanum neorickii
  Solanum pennellii
  Solanum pimpinellifolium – Currant tomato
  Section Macronesiotes
  Section Normania
  Section Petota
  Solanum albornozii
  Solanum bulbocastanum – Ornamental nightshade
  Solanum bukasovii Juz. ex Rybin
  Solanum burtonii
  Solanum cardiophyllum – Heart-leaved nightshade
  Solanum chilliasense
  Solanum commersonii Dunal – Commerson's nightshade
  Solanum demissum Lindl. – Dwarf wild potato
  Solanum jamesii – Wild potato
  Solanum minutifoliolum
  Solanum paucijugum
  Solanum phureja Juz. & Bukasov
  Solanum pinnatisectum Dunal – Tansy-leaved nightshade
  Solanum regularifolium
  Solanum stoloniferum Schltdl. – 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 Sendtner – Sonoita nightshade (Americas)
  Solanum americanum Mill. – American nightshade, American black nightshade, glossy nightshade (Americas, Hawaiʻi)
  Solanum chenopodioides Lam. – Goosefoot nightshade, slender nightshade (including S. gracilius)
  Solanum douglasii Dunal – Green-spotted nightshade
  Solanum interius Rydb.
  Solanum nigrescens M.Martens & Galeotti – Divine nightshade
  Solanum nigrum L. – European black nightshade, "black nightshade"
  S. nigrum guineense- "Garden Huckleberry"
  Solanum pseudogracile Heiser – Glowing nightshade
  Solanum ptychanthum – West Indian nightshade, Eastern black nightshade
  Solanum retroflexum – Wonderberry, sunberry
  Solanum sarrachoides – Hairy nightshade
  Solanum scabrum  Mill. – Garden huckleberry
  Solanum triflorum Nutt. – Cut-leaved nightshade
  Solanum villosum Mill. – Yellow nightshade
caption: Jasmine nightshade (S. laxum) flowers
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