Solanum

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Solanum is a genus in family Solanaceae, which is known for three species: tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.

Subgenus Bassovia

Section Allophylla

• Solanum granuloso-leprosum

Section Cyphomandropsis

• Solanum glaucophyllum Desf. – Waxy-leaved nightshade

Section Pachyphylla

• Solanum betaceum Cav. – Tamarillo
• Solanum exiguum
• Solanum roseum

Subgenus Leptostemonum

Five-minute plant (S. atropurpureum) fruit

Solanum palinacanthum Shrubby nightshade (S. robustum) flowers

Giant potatocreeper (S. wendlandii) flowers Porcupine tomato (S. pyracanthos) fruit

Section Acanthophora

• Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. – Indian nightshade
• Solanum atropurpureum Schrank – Five-minute plant
• Solanum capsicoides – Cockroach berry, polohauaiʻi (Polynesian)
• Solanum mammosum – Nipplefruit, titty fruit, cow's udder, "apple of Sodom"
• Solanum palinacanthum Dunal
• Solanum viarum Dunal – Tropical soda apple

Section Androceras: 12 spp.

• Series Androceras
• Series Violaceiflorum
• Series Pacificum

Section Anisantherum

Section Campanulata

Section Crinitum

Section Croatianum

Section Erythrotrichum

• Solanum robustum H.L.Wendl. – Shrubby nightshade

Section Graciliflorum^{[verification needed]}

Section Herposolanum

• Solanum wendlandii Hook.f. – Giant potatocreeper

Section Irenosolanum

• Solanum incompletum Dunal – Pōpolo kū mai (Hawaiʻi)
• Solanum nelsonii Dunal – Nelson's horsenettle, ʻĀkia (Hawaiʻi)
• Solanum sandwicense Hook. & Arn. – Hawaiian horsenettle, Pōpoloʻaiakeakua (Oʻahu, Kauaʻi)

Section Ischyracanthum

Section Lasiocarpa

• Solanum lasiocarpum Dunal
• Solanum pseudolulo – lulo de perro (Colombia)
• Solanum quitoense – lulo (Colombia), naranjilla (Ecuador)
• Solanum sessiliflorum – Cocona

Section Melongena

• Solanum aculeastrum – Soda apple, sodaapple nightshade, goat apple, poison apple, "bitter-apple"
• Solanum campechiense – Redberry nightshade
• Solanum carolinense – Carolina horsenettle, radical weed, sand brier, devil's tomato, "bull nettle", "tread-softly", "apple of Sodom", "wild tomato" (southeastern United States)
• Solanum cataphractum (northern Western Australia, including Coronation Island)
• Solanum citrullifolium A.Braun – Watermelon nightshade (southern United States)
• Solanum dimidiatum Raf. – Torrey's nightshade
• Solanum elaeagnifolium – Silver-leaved nightshade, prairie berry, silverleaf nettle, white horsenettle, silver nightshade, "bull-nettle", "trompillo" (Spanish); Silver-leaf bitter-apple, satansbos (South Africa)
• Solanum heterodoxum Dunal – Melon-leaved nightshade
• Solanum incanum L.
• Solanum linnaeanum – Devil's apple, "apple of Sodom"
• Solanum macrocarpon L.
• Solanum marginatum L.f. – White-margined nightshade
• Solanum melongena – Eggplant, aubergine (including S. ovigerum)
• Solanum rostratum Dunal – Buffalo bur, Texas thistle
• Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam. – Sticky nightshade, fire-and-ice
• Solanum virginianum L.

Section Micracantha

• Solanum jamaicense Mill. – Jamaican nightshade
• Solanum lanceifolium Jacq. – Lance-leaved nightshade
• Solanum tampicense Dunal – Wetland nightshade

Section Monodolichopus

Section Nycterium

Section Oliganthes

• Solanum aethiopicum – Ethiopian eggplant, nakati, mock tomato, Ethiopian nightshade; including S. gilo (scarlet eggplant, Gilo or jiló)
• Solanum centrale – Australian desert raisin, bush raisin, bush sultana, "bush tomato", akatjurra (Alyawarre), kampurarpa (Pitjantjatjara), merne akatyerre (Arrernte), kutjera
• Solanum cleistogamum – "bush tomato", merne mwanyerne (Arrernte)
• Solanum ellipticum – Potato bush, "bush tomato"
• Solanum pyracanthos Lam. – Porcupine tomato, Devil's Thorn
• Solanum quadriloculatum F.Muell. – "bush tomato", "wild tomato" (Australia)

Section Persicariae

• Solanum bahamense L. – Bahama nightshade, canker berry, berengena de playa
• Solanum ensifolium Dunal – Erubia

Section Polytrichum

Section Pugiunculifera

Section Somalanum

Section Torva

• Solanum asteropilodes
• Solanum chrysotrichum Schltdl. – Giant devil's-fig
• Solanum lanceolatum – Orangeberry nightshade
• Solanum paniculatum – Jurubeba
• Solanum torvum – Turkey berry, devil's fig, prickly nightshade, shoo-shoo bush, wild eggplant, pea eggplant

Subgenus Lyciosolanum

• Solanum guineense L.

Subgenus Solanum sensu stricto

Solanum erianthumJasmine nightshade (S. laxum) flowers

Currant tomato (S. pimpinellifolium) fruit Andean black potatoes (S. tuberosum)Turkey berry (S. torvum) flowers

Yellow nightshade (S. villosum) fruit

Section Afrosolanum

Section Anarrhichomenum

• Solanum baretiae

Section Archaesolanum

• Solanum aviculare – Poroporo (New Zealand), kangaroo apple (Australia)

Section Basarthrum

• Solanum catilliflorum
• Solanum muricatum – Pepino dulce, pepino melon, melon pear, "pepino", "tree melon"
• Solanum perlongistylum
• Solanum tergosericeum

Section Benderianum

Section Brevantherum

• Solanum bullatum
• Solanum erianthum D.Don – Potato tree, "mullein nightshade"
• Solanum mauritianum – Woolly nightshade, ear-leaved nightshade, flannel weed, bugweed, tobacco weed, kerosene plant, "wild tobacco" (Australia)
• Solanum evolvuloides

Section Dulcamara

• Solanum crispum – Chilean potato vine, Chilean nightshade, Chilean potato tree
• Solanum dulcamara – Bittersweet
• Solanum imbaburense
• Solanum laxum Spreng. – Jasmine nightshade
• Solanum leiophyllum
• Solanum seaforthianum Andrews – Brazilian nightshade
• Solanum triquetrum Cav. – Texas nightshade
• Solanum wallacei – Wallace's nightshade, Catalina nightshade, Clokey's nightshade, "wild tomato" (including S. clokeyi)
• Solanum xanti – Purple nightshade, San Diego nightshade

Section Herpystichum

Section Holophylla

• Solanum diphyllum L. – Twin-leaved nightshade
• Solanum pseudocapsicum – Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, "winter cherry" (including S. capsicastrum)
• Solanum pseudoquina (including S. inaequale Vell.)

Section Juglandifolia

• Solanum juglandifolium
• Solanum ochranthum

Section Lemurisolanum

Section Lycopersicoides

• Solanum lycopersicoides Dunal – Peruvian wolfpeach
• Solanum sitiens

Section Lycopersicon

• Solanum arcanum Peralta – "wild tomato"
• Solanum chilense
• Solanum corneliomulleri
• Solanum huaylasense Peralta
• Solanum peruvianum L. – Peruvian nightshade, "wild tomato"
• Solanum cheesmaniae (L.Riley) Fosberg
• Solanum chmielewskii
• Solanum galapagense S.C.Darwin & Peralta
• Solanum habrochaites
• Solanum lycopersicum – Tomato
• Solanum neorickii
• Solanum pennellii
• Solanum pimpinellifolium – Currant tomato

Section Macronesiotes

Section Normania

• †Solanum nava (?)

Section Petota

• Solanum albornozii
• Solanum bulbocastanum – Ornamental nightshade
• Solanum bukasovii Juz. ex Rybin
• Solanum burtonii
• Solanum cardiophyllum – Heart-leaved nightshade
• Solanum chilliasense
• Solanum commersonii Dunal – Commerson's nightshade
• Solanum demissum Lindl. – Dwarf wild potato
• Solanum jamesii – Wild potato
• Solanum minutifoliolum
• Solanum paucijugum
• Solanum phureja Juz. & Bukasov
• Solanum pinnatisectum Dunal – Tansy-leaved nightshade
• Solanum regularifolium
• Solanum stoloniferum Schltdl. – Tigna potato, Fendler's horsenettle
• Solanum stenotomum (including S. goniocalyx)
• Solanum ternatum (including S. ternifolium)
• Solanum tuberosum – Potato

Section Pteroidea

Section Quadrangulare

Section Regmandra

Section Solanum

• Solanum adscendens Sendtner – Sonoita nightshade (Americas)
• Solanum americanum Mill. – American nightshade, American black nightshade, glossy nightshade (Americas, Hawaiʻi)
• Solanum chenopodioides Lam. – Goosefoot nightshade, slender nightshade (including S. gracilius)
• Solanum douglasii Dunal – Green-spotted nightshade
• Solanum interius Rydb.
• Solanum melongena L.
• Solanum nigrescens M.Martens & Galeotti – Divine nightshade
• Solanum nigrum L. – European black nightshade, "black nightshade"
• S. nigrum guineense – "Garden Huckleberry"
• Solanum pseudogracile Heiser – Glowing nightshade
• Solanum ptychanthum – West Indian nightshade, Eastern black nightshade
• Solanum retroflexum – Wonderberry, sunberry
• Solanum sarrachoides – Hairy nightshade
• Solanum scabrum Mill. – Garden huckleberry
• Solanum triflorum Nutt. – Cut-leaved nightshade
• Solanum villosum Mill. – Yellow nightshade

Other notable species

Forked nightshade (S. furcatum)

Bluewitch nightshade (S. umbelliferum) flowers

• Solanum abutiloides – Dwarf tamarillo
• Solanum amygdalifolium Steud.
• Solanum bellum
• Solanum cajanumense
• Solanum chimborazense
• Solanum chrysasteroides
• Solanum cinnamomeum
• Solanum conocarpum Rich. ex Dunal – Marron bacoba
• Solanum cowiei Martine
• Solanum cremastanthemum
• Solanum davisense Whalen – Davis' horsenettle
• Solanum densepilosulum
• Solanum donianum Walp. – Mullein nightshade
• Solanum dolichorhachis
• Solanum fallax
• Solanum ferox L. – Hairy-fruited eggplant, Thai hairy-fruited eggplant
• Solanum fortunense
• Solanum furcatum – Forked nightshade
• Solanum glabratum Dunal
• Solanum haleakalaense H.St.John
• Solanum hindsianum Benth. – Hinds' nightshade
• Solanum hypermegethes
• Solanum hypocalycosarcum
• Solanum interandinum
• Solanum latiflorum
• Solanum leucodendron
• Solanum lumholtzianum Bartlett – Sonoran nightshade
• Solanum luteoalbum (including S. semicoalitum)
• Solanum lycocarpum – Wolf apple, fruta-de-lobo, lobeira (Brazil)
• Solanum melissarum Bohs
• Solanum nudum Dunal – Forest nightshade
• Solanum ovum-fringillae
• Solanum paralum
• Solanum parishii A.Heller – Parish's nightshade
• Solanum physalifolium Rusby
• Solanum pinetorum
• Solanum polygamum Vahl – Cakalaka berry
• Solanum pyrifolium Lam.
• Solanum pubescens Willd.
• Solanum riedlei Dunal – Riedle's nightshade
• Solanum rudepannum Dunal
• Solanum rugosum Dunal – tabacon aspero
• Solanum sibundoyense
• Solanum sodiroi (including S. carchiense)
• Solanum sycocarpum
• Solanum tenuipes Bartlett – Fancy nightshade
• Solanum tobagense
• Solanum trilobatum L.
• Solanum umbelliferum – Bluewitch nightshade
• Solanum verrogeneum Berengena
• Solanum violaceum Ortega
• Solanum viride Spreng. – Green Nightshade
• Solanum woodburyi Howard – Woodbury's nightshade