Nightshade weeds can slow or halt harvesting operations in soybeans and forages, and can contaminate harvested grains, potentially reducing quality. A single nightshade plant can produce up to 1,000 ...

Spring weather has finally come to the Pacific Northwest, which means more hiking and foraging opportunities. But if you’re walking along one of the many trails across Washington state and find a bush ...

The berries of the Deadly Nightshade plant, seen here, are thought to explain the behavior of a German monk who was found stumbling naked through a forest. Hallucinogenic berries, not religious ...

A lot of living things on our planet have defenses they use in the wild to help them survive. For some plants, being poisonous may help keep them from becoming someone’s dinner. That’s what I found ...

There’s nothing like wandering through a Washington state forest on a beautiful summer day in search of ripe, wild berries. Wild berry picking is the stuff of childhood memories for many ...

They may look like tiny tomatoes or baby blueberries, but some of these tasty-looking fruits are actually poisonous black nightshade and bittersweet nightshade. Berry samples recently brought in to ...

Juliana K. Buckelew, David W. Monks, Greg D. Hoyt and Robert F. Walls, Jr. Studies were conducted to determine the effect of in-row eastern black nightshade establishment and removal timings in ...

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A schoolboy collapsed and died after eating poisonous yew tree berries and leaves while on a family walk last year. He was accompanied by his father in Didsbury, on September 18 last year. His dad was ...

A lovely neighbor came to have tea with the CEO recently — non-management employees aren’t invited to tea (with or without crumpets). When our neighbor left she gave the firm a parting gift. It was a ...

Two tiny tomatillo fossils have kicked the origin of nightshade plants back to the age of dinosaurs. The fossils, pressed into 52-million-year-old rock, suggest that the nightshade family originated ...

Duane Mellor is a director, council member and spokesperson of the British Dietetic Association. Nenad Naumovski does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...