page_title: Solanum
section_title: Subgenus Leptostemonum
hierarchical_section_title: Solanum / Systematics / Subgenus Leptostemonum
caption_attribution_description: English: Solanum wendlandii (flowers). Location: Maui, Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula
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 Acanthophora
  Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. – Indian nightshade
  Solanum atropurpureum Schrank – Five-minute plant
  Solanum capsicoides – Cockroach berry, polohauaiʻi (Polynesian)
  Solanum mammosum – Nipplefruit, titty fruit, cow's udder, "apple of Sodom"
  Solanum palinacanthum Dunal
  Solanum viarum Dunal – 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 H.L.Wendl. – Shrubby nightshade
  Section Graciliflorum
  Section Herposolanum
  Solanum wendlandii Hook.f. – Giant potatocreeper
  Section Irenosolanum
  Solanum incompletum Dunal – Pōpolo kū mai (Hawaiʻi)
  Solanum nelsonii Dunal – Nelson's horsenettle, ʻĀkia (Hawaiʻi)
  Solanum sandwicense Hook. & Arn. – Hawaiian horsenettle, Pōpoloʻaiakeakua (Oʻahu, Kauaʻi)
  Section Ischyracanthum
  Section Lasiocarpa
  Solanum lasiocarpum Dunal
  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 citrullifolium A.Braun – Watermelon nightshade (southern United States)
  Solanum dimidiatum Raf. – 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 Dunal – Melon-leaved nightshade
  Solanum incanum L.
  Solanum linnaeanum – Devil's apple, "apple of Sodom"
  Solanum macrocarpon L.
  Solanum marginatum L.f. – White-margined nightshade
  Solanum melongena – Eggplant, aubergine (including S. ovigerum)
  Solanum rostratum Dunal – Buffalo bur, Texas thistle
  Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam. – Sticky nightshade, fire-and-ice
  Solanum virginianum L.
  Section Micracantha
  Solanum jamaicense Mill. – Jamaican nightshade
  Solanum lanceifolium Jacq. – Lance-leaved nightshade
  Solanum tampicense Dunal – 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 Lam. – Porcupine tomato, Devil's Thorn
  Solanum quadriloculatum F.Muell. – "bush tomato", "wild tomato" (Australia)
  Section Persicariae
  Solanum bahamense L. – Bahama nightshade, canker berry, berengena de playa
  Solanum ensifolium Dunal – Erubia
  Section Polytrichum
  Section Pugiunculifera
  Section Somalanum
  Section Torva
  Solanum asteropilodes
  Solanum chrysotrichum Schltdl. – 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
caption: Giant potatocreeper (S. wendlandii) flowers
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