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After flowering, potato plants produce small green fruits that resemble green cherry tomatoes, each containing about 300 seeds.Like all other parts of the plant except the tubers, the fruit contain the toxic alkaloid solanine and are therefore unsuitable for consumption. [1]
The potatoes were determined to have between 0.25 and 0.3 mg of solanine per gram of potato. [citation needed] Another mass poisoning was reported in Canada in 1984, after 61 schoolchildren and teachers showed symptoms of solanine toxicity after consuming baked potatoes with 0.5 mg of solanine per gram of potato. [31]
All parts of this tree, including the fruit, contain toxic phorbol esters typical of the Euphorbiaceae. Specifically the tree contains 12-deoxy-5-hydroxyphorbol-6gamma, 7alpha-oxide, hippomanins, mancinellin, sapogenin, and phloracetophenone-2, and 4-dimethylether is present in the leaves, while the fruits possess physostigmine. [134]
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Several are potentially toxic, most notably the poisons commonly found in the plant species Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade) and other plants in the genus Solanum, including potato. A prototypical glycoalkaloid is solanine (composed of the sugar solanose and the alkaloid solanidine), which is found in the potato.
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Solanum jamesii (common names: wild potato or Four Corners potato) [1] is a species of nightshade. Its range includes the southern United States . All parts of the plant, and especially the fruit, are toxic, containing solanine when it matures.
Black nightshades (many species in the Solanum nigrum complex, Solanum sect. Solanum) have varying levels of toxins and are considered too toxic to eat by many people in North America and Europe, but young stems and leaves or fully ripened fruit of various species are cooked and eaten by native people in North America, Africa, and Asia.