potato family

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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, and Solandrafamily Solanaceae, Solanaceaeasterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsorder Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophularialesgenus Solanum, Solanum - type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweetAtropa, genus Atropa - belladonnagenus Browallia - small genus of tropical South American annualsBrunfelsia, genus Brunfelsia - genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruitsBrugmansia, genus Brugmansia - includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpetsgenus Capsicum, Capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppersCestrum, genus Cestrum - genus of fragrant tropical American shrubsCyphomandra, genus Cyphomandra - tree tomatoDatura, genus Datura - thorn appleFabiana, genus Fabiana - genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubsgenus Hyoscyamus, Hyoscyamus - genus of poisonous herbs: henbanegenus Lycium, Lycium - deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regionsgenus Lycopersicon, genus Lycopersicum, Lycopersicon, Lycopersicum - tomatoesgenus Mandragora, Mandragora - a genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceaegenus Nicandra, Nicandra - sturdy annual of Perugenus Nicotiana, Nicotiana - American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliagegenus Nierembergia - genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowersgenus Petunia, Petunia - annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South Americagenus Physalis, Physalis - ground cherriesgenus Salpichroa, Salpichroa - herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggsgenus Salpiglossis - small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowersgenus Schizanthus - Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowersgenus Scopolia, Scopolia - genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloidsgenus Solandra, Solandra - shrubby climbers of tropical Americagenus Streptosolen, Streptosolen - one species: marmalade bush