Black Nightshade (Solanum nigrum, Solanum ptychanthum, Solanum americanum) are edible. The leaves need to be cooked in some manner (stir fry, sauteed, steamed) to remove their solanine poison but later in the summer, their ripe berries are delicious raw. Identification: Small bush with a coarse, stubbly stem. Leaves are alternating,, diamond-shaped, pinnate veined, with an intact edge. The flowers grow in small clusters, have five white petals that sweep backwards, and yellow happy bits at the c

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