family Solanaceae

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family Solanaceae - large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra potato family, Solanaceae asterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales genus Solanum, Solanum - type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet Atropa, genus Atropa - belladonna genus Browallia - small genus of tropical South American annuals Brunfelsia, genus Brunfelsia - genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits Brugmansia, genus Brugmansia - includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets genus Capsicum, Capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers Cestrum, genus Cestrum - genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs Cyphomandra, genus Cyphomandra - tree tomato Datura, genus Datura - thorn apple Fabiana, genus Fabiana - genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs genus Hyoscyamus, Hyoscyamus - genus of poisonous herbs: henbane genus Lycium, Lycium - deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions genus Lycopersicon, genus Lycopersicum, Lycopersicon, Lycopersicum - tomatoes genus Mandragora, Mandragora - a genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae genus Nicandra, Nicandra - sturdy annual of Peru genus Nicotiana, Nicotiana - American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage genus Nierembergia - genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers genus Petunia, Petunia - annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America genus Physalis, Physalis - ground cherries genus Salpichroa, Salpichroa - herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs genus Salpiglossis - small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers genus Schizanthus - Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers genus Scopolia, Scopolia - genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids genus Solandra, Solandra - shrubby climbers of tropical America genus Streptosolen, Streptosolen - one species: marmalade bush