...undergoes the most miraculous flavor transformation when cooked and just lightly sweetened! There is a stark contrast between eating the berries raw and cooked and sweetened state. The raw ripe berries have a tart flavor, similar to tomatillo, yummy for savory snacking and salsas. The cooked and lightly sweetened berries are reminiscent of blackberry or gooseberry.
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I would love it if the ground cherries self seeded, they are pretty good, but their invasive nature didn't hold true here.
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Mk Neal wrote:We get black nightshade popping up all over here too. I don't think it is actually one of the poisonous nightshades, at least not our sort. The berries just taste like tiny tomatoes. Too small and sparse to be worth harvesting, though.
Skandi Rogers wrote:I couldn't grow them here one of my major weeds is Solanum nigrum or black nightshade, that looks pretty much exactly the same as your photos but is posinous, I would never know which one I had! But by the sound of it I am not missing out on anything.
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Ellendra Nauriel wrote:
Skandi Rogers wrote:I couldn't grow them here one of my major weeds is Solanum nigrum or black nightshade, that looks pretty much exactly the same as your photos but is posinous, I would never know which one I had! But by the sound of it I am not missing out on anything.
In general if we don't eat something commonly at least one place in the world there's a reason why. It may be fashion but it's more likely to be taste or the work required to produce/prepare it.
If it's really Solanum nigrum, or one of the many similar-looking plants in the Solanum genus with dark purple berries, it's not poisonous. The confusion lies in the fact that Atropa belladonna is also often called "Black Nightshade". For centuries, botanical texts assumed they were the same plant. Some books still get them mixed up.
The easiest way to tell the difference is by looking at the flowers. If the flowers are white or off-white, you have one of the Solanums. If the flowers are purple, then you're dealing with belladonna.
Skandi Rogers wrote:
Please do not say it is not poisonous this is very dangerous misinformation to spread about as it is, there are many papers published on it being toxic, below are the first two to come up in a search. Most papers are on livestock but anything that harms a rat or a cow will also harm you. these scientists are not confusing two very different species.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/THE-CHEMISTRY-BEHIND-THE-TOXICITY-OF-BLACK-SOLANUM-Ganguly-Gupta/9e6f00ec54d122e26112e983f4e8e7f3e939fc42
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-4565.1993.tb00097.x
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