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When I say "edible", these things make me nervous - like the garden
huckleberry that looks very like a wild nightshade that used to spring up
all over my allotment ...

The wild one's black nightshade, and is eaten on every continent except
Antarctica.

I gather pounds of the berries most years (on adjoining farmland, beside
sugar beet crops, mainly) and make nightshade pies with them. Not very
different from blueberries, though I sometimes add a small amount of
tartaric acid as they're rather bland otherwise.

I tend to munch a proportion of them as I pick them too, but you
shouldn't eat anything but the ripe berries of Solanum nigrum though.

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