Vegetables of the Solanaceae family:

1. Tomatoes

Tomatoes generally refer to tomatoes, plants of the genus Tomato in the Solanaceae family. The fruit is oblate or nearly spherical and fleshy. It is succulent, has yellow seeds, and has flowers and fruits in summer and autumn.

2. Pepper

An annual or limited perennial plant of the Solanaceae family. The fruit is long and finger-shaped, with a tapered and often curved top. It is green when immature and turns red, orange or purple when mature. Red and spicy. Seeds are flat and kidney-shaped, light yellow.

3. Okra

The stem is cylindrical and has sparse thorns. The leaves are palmate, the lobes are wide to narrow, the stipules are linear and covered with sparse bristles. Originating in India, it is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions. The cultivation area in China's Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and other provinces is also extremely large.

4. Eggplant

A plant in the Solanaceae family, the fruit shape and size vary greatly. The shape of the fruit is long or round, and the colors are white, red, purple, etc.

The unique characteristics of solanaceous vegetables

1. Solanaceous vegetables are native to the tropics, like warm nature and are intolerant to cold.

2. It is not sensitive to photoperiod response and requires strong light and good ventilation conditions. Insufficient light can easily cause leggy growth.

3. Unfavorable environmental conditions, such as too high or too low temperature, insufficient light, malnutrition, soil drought or waterlogging, can cause flower and fruit drop.

4. Seedlings grow slowly and have a long age. In order to go to market earlier and extend the harvest period, concentrated seedling cultivation is often carried out during production.

5. Well-developed root system, strong growth and strong branching ability.

6. It has many different diseases and insect pests, so continuous cropping and crop rotation with Solanaceae crops should be avoided in crop arrangement.