The more common plants in the Solanaceae family are eggplant, pepper, ginseng, lobelia, tomato/scented mandarins, mandarins, goji berries, petunia petunia, asparagus, sourpuss, pittosporum, scopolamine, tobacco, cabbage peppers, colorful peppers, belladonna, and others.

The Solanaceae:

The Solanaceae (Latin name: Solanaceae), is a family of plants under the tubular flower, about 80 genera, 3,000 species, widely distributed in the tropical and temperate regions, the main production of tropical America. China has 25 genera, about 115 species, the provinces are distributed. Solanaceae has a variety of important vegetables, economic plants and ornamental plants, some of which are common weeds in agricultural areas, wild plants are toxic, do not eat by mistake.

The main characteristics of plants in the Solanaceae family:

1, annual to perennial herbs, semi-shrubs, shrubs or small trees; erect, creeping, supporting or climbing; sometimes with prickles, sparse spines. Leaves simple, entire, undivided or divided, sometimes pinnately compound, alternate or bifoliolate on flowering branch segments of unequal size; stipules absent.

2. Flowers solitary, clustered or in scorpioid, corymbose, umbellate, racemose, paniculate cymes, sparsely racemose; terminal, branch axillary, or leaf axillary, or extra-axillary; hermaphroditic or sparsely heterogamous, actinomorphic or slightly bilaterally symmetric, usually 5-merous, sparsely 4-merous.

3. Calyx usually 5-dentate, 5-cleft or 5-parted, sparsely 2-, 3-, 4- to 10-dentate or lobed, very rarely truncate without lobes, lobes valvate, outwardly valvate, inwardly valvate or imbricate in bud, or not closed, scarcely enlarged or very much so after anthesis, persistent when fruiting, sparsely circumscissile from near the base and only basally persistent.