As Andrew F. Smith details in his 1994 book The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery, before the fruit made ...

Deadly nightshade, or belladonna nightshade, is an extremely toxic plant with a murky history. All parts of are poisonous, including the roots, leaves and especially the glossy black berries ...

Poisonous plants are having a moment, courtesy of the “White Lotus.” The Field Museum has a whole collection of toxic ...

Seeds from the fruit of the pong pong tree are toxic, and ingesting them can lead to nausea, vomiting, and even death.

Cornwall A cousin of the deadly nightshade plant is thriving in Britain because of the balmy weather - with experts warning its poisonous berries could kill. The fruit of the black nightshade ...

Ingesting the plant can cause a range of dangerous side effects. Deadly nightshade The clue is in the name of this one -This plant features several green berries that then ripen into a black colour.

The potato was viewed as “peasant food” and dismissed as unworthy of broader societal adoption. The man who turned the tide ...

creating lots of competition with crop plants for light. Black nightshade is often confused with deadly nightshade (Atropa bella-donna), which is a much more poisonous weed than black nightshade, and ...