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• n  large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra

• Solanaceae
• family Solanaceae
• potato family

News & Articles

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• New World's Oldest Tomatillo Discovered
  A fossilized tomatillo, still in its papery shell, is the earliest fruit from the tomato family ever found in South America, researchers reported Oct. 30 at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting in Denver.  "It's quite amazing," said Peter Wilf, a paleobotanist at Penn State University. Both fossil and genetic evidence suggests that Solanaceae plants originated and diversified in ...
  Nov. 5, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News