Are huckleberries meant to look like deadly nightshade.,or has my neighbour made a terrible mistake.

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saunxders writes
Are huckleberries meant to look like deadly nightshade.,or has my
neighbour made a terrible mistake.

There is more than one plant known as huckleberry. the garden
huckleberry that you can grow easily here is the same as/close relative
of black nightshade, which looks like a non-climbing deadly nightshade.
But he shouldn't eat them unless he is sure that what has come up is
what he planted.
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Are huckleberries meant to look like deadly nightshade.,or has my
neighbour made a terrible mistake.

Huckleberries look like blueberries.

Garden huckleberries look like *BLACK* nightshade. (The berries of
which, when ripe are edible.)

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from Kay Easton contains these words:

There is more than one plant known as huckleberry. the garden
huckleberry that you can grow easily here is the same as/close relative
of black nightshade, which looks like a non-climbing deadly nightshade.
But he shouldn't eat them unless he is sure that what has come up is
what he planted.

Deadly nightshade doesn't climb. Upright plant with leaves similar to
black nightshade, but with quite large dull greenish-purple bell-shaped
flowers and tangerine-shaped black berries with a large green calyx.

Woody nightshade climbs and has tomato-like flowers with blue petals and
a yellow centre, and has trusses of poisonous little red plum tomatoes.

Black nightshade and its big brother the Garden Huckleberry have
similarly shaped flowers with white petals and yellow centres, and
trusses of round black tomatoes and cannot be mistaken for deadly
nightshade, whose fruit grows singly.

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Jaques d'Altrades wrote:
The message m
from ken saunxders
contains these words:

Are huckleberries meant to look like deadly nightshade.,or has my
neighbour made a terrible mistake.

Huckleberries look like blueberries.

Garden huckleberries look like *BLACK* nightshade. (The berries of
which, when ripe are edible.)

See a previous thread. The berries of SOME STRAINS OF black nightshade
are edible; it is unclear that all strains are. I shall continue with
my practice of experimenting with many wild plants, but not the
Solanaceae.

It is very bizarre that two families that include many of the most
important food plants (the Solanaceae and Fabaceae/Leguminoseae/etc.)
also include many of the most poisonous plants. But it is so.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

See a previous thread. The berries of SOME STRAINS OF black nightshade
are edible; it is unclear that all strains are. I shall continue with
my practice of experimenting with many wild plants, but not the
Solanaceae.

I've been eating the berries since I was an anklebiter and have never
taken any harm from them. That's probably fifty years of autumnal
berrynoshing.

It is very bizarre that two families that include many of the most
important food plants (the Solanaceae and Fabaceae/Leguminoseae/etc.)
also include many of the most poisonous plants. But it is so.

Just as bizarrely my favourite mushroom (Amanita rubescens) is closely
related to some of the most poisonous ones known. (Amanita phalloides,
A. virosa, A. verna and resembles the only slightly less poisonous A.
pantherina.)

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