The Nightshade Family
Nightshade Family - Solanaceae
Tree Tobacco Nicotiana glaucaNative to South America but widely introduced and naturalised throughout much of the warm temperate and tropical parts of the world. Common in Fuerteventura as a garden plant and where self-seeded on cultivated ground and roadsides.
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Canary Boxthorn Lycium intricatum
Native to the Canary Islands, North-west Africa and extreme South-west Europe. Common in Fuerteventura as a thorny subshrub on dry hillsides.
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Sclerophylax spinescens
Native to Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina. Introduced on the Canary Islands and occasionally found around towns and villages.
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Common Thorn-apple Datura stramonium
Introduced from the Americas throughout much of the world. Frequent on Fuerteventura in cultivated and disturbed ground.
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Recurved Thorn-apple Datura innoxia
Introduced from Central America as a garden ornamental and occasionally found along roadsides and disturbed ground. Sacred Thorn-apple (Datura wrightii) is very similar but has apressed hairs, not raised hairs.
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Cock's-eggs Salpichroa origanifolia
Native throughout Eurasia and North Africa; introduced in many other places. A weed of cultivated and disturbed ground.
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White Henbane Hyoscyamus albus
Native from Macaronesia and the Mediterranean Region to the Arabian Peninsula. Occurs on all of the Canary Islands.
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Black Nightshade Solanum nigrum
Native throughout Eurasia and North Africa; introduced in many other places. A weed of cultivated and disturbed ground.
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Common Tomato Solanum esculentum
Introduced from South America for its edible fruits. Occasionally found were self-seeded from dropped fruit in cultivated and disturbed ground.
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