September 6, 2011

Nightshades at SF Botanical Garden

Nightshades are a large family of plants.  The family includes important foods such as potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, as well as tobacco and mandrake.  Many nightshades have long, trumpet-like flowers, such as those in the brugmansia (Angel's Trumpets), cestrum (Jessamines), and iochroma (Iochromas) genera.  These three genera are also known for the toxic properties or all their parts, as well as their entheogenic use by South American peoples.

Pink Brugmansia

Brugmansia arborea

Brugmansia insignis 'Jean Pasko'

Brugmansia sanguinea 'Pasachoa'

Brugmansia sangiunea Yellow Form

Brugmansia insignis

Brugmansia insignis 'Betty Marshall' - Angel Trumpet Tree

Brugmansia 'Tiara'

Brugmansia 'Tiara'

Brunfelsia nyctaginoides

Brunfelsia pauciflora - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Cestrum

Cestrum aurantiacum - Orange Jessamine

Cestrum fasciculatum - Early Jessamine

Cestrum guatemalensis - Guatemalen Jessamine

 Cestrum elegans 'Smithii' - Smith's Jessamine

Cestrum 'Newellii' - Newell's Jessamine

Iochroma australe 'Alba'

Iochroma australe

Iochroma australe

Iochroma cyaneum

Iochroma cyaneum

Iochroma fuchsioides

Iochroma australe?

 Nicotiana species

Solandra species - Chalice Vine

Solanum laciniatum - Kangaroo Apple

Streptosolon jamesonii - Marmalade Bush

Vestia lycioides



ナス科のナス属、タバコ属、キダチチョウセンアサガオ属(ブルグマンシア、エンジェルストランペット)、イオクロマ属