Potato Family

Noun1.potato family - 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; Solandra
asterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales
genus Solanum, Solanum - type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet
Atropa, genus Atropa - belladonna
genus Browallia - small genus of tropical South American annuals
Brunfelsia, genus Brunfelsia - genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits
Brugmansia, genus Brugmansia - includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets
genus Capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers
Cestrum, genus Cestrum - genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs
Datura, genus Datura - thorn apple
Fabiana, genus Fabiana - genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs
genus Hyoscyamus, Hyoscyamus - genus of poisonous herbs: henbane
genus Lycium, Lycium - deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions
genus Mandragora, Mandragora - a genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae
genus Nicandra, Nicandra - sturdy annual of Peru
genus Nicotiana, Nicotiana - American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage
genus Nierembergia - genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers
genus Petunia - annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America
genus Physalis, Physalis - ground cherries
genus Salpichroa, Salpichroa - herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs
genus Salpiglossis - small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers
genus Schizanthus - Chilean herbs with orchidlike flowers
genus Scopolia, Scopolia - genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids
genus Solandra, Solandra - shrubby climbers of tropical America
genus Streptosolen, Streptosolen - 1 species: marmalade bush

 

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