Potatoes, believe it or not, are also nightshades.
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PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months agoSame goes for if it looks like a Tomato, those are nightshades and the only ones I know about that aren’t deadly to eat are tomatoes and peppers, and the peppers only because the poison they developed doesn’t kill you it just makes you feel like your entire digestive tract is on fire.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 months ago
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Actually I’m pretty sure those can poison you if you don’t grab them at the right time
bitfucker@programming.dev 2 months ago
Yes, and also it can be poisonous later down the line after harvested
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The berries of potatoes are poisonous, just the tubers aren’t unless exposed to sunlight.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The tubers will give you a fever if eaten raw.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When a whole family dies because of bad air in a cellar, isn’t it usually potatoes that caused it?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s why we remove the eyes. Also be sure to remove any green parts.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 months ago
And tobacco
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eggplants, potatoes, ground cherries, tomatillos, huckleberries are all edible too. That said you are right, if it is growing in the wild assume it will kill you. Don’t eat it.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Huckleberry varieties are all Nightshades? Does that mean blueberries are Nightshades?
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Huckleberries and blueberries are not related closely at all. Huckleberries are in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Blueberries are in the blueberry family, Ericacaea. Their morphologies, or growth forms, are very very different.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I didn’t realise blueberries were in the Heather family but it makes sense.
Classy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You must be confused, or perhaps you’re not talking about the same species that I am thinking about. Huckleberries, genus Gaylussacia, are definitely in the same family as blueberries, Vaccinium. They’re both Ericaceae, in the subfamily Vaccinioides. Gaylussacia is definitely not in Solanaceae.
Two species of blueberry as well as cranberry grow natively in a few bog habitats near my home, and huckleberries are also sympatric with these species.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
When I looked into this what I came away with was there was a single species of nightshade that is sometimes called “Garden Huckleberries”, which are unrelated to what are commonly known as “true huckleberries”. True Huckleberries are all in the genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia, which are contained in the family Ericaceae, of which “Ericacaea” is either an alternative or misspelling.