silverleaf nightshade


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Noun 1. [画像:silverleaf nightshade - weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers]silverleaf nightshade - weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America
nightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
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Prevalent throughout the United States, the fungus overwinters on tomato plant debris and perennial tomato-family weeds, including hairy nightshade, horsenetde, jimsonweed, sacred thorn-apple and silverleaf nightshade. Spores can then spread to tomatoes in spring via wind or splashing rain, but they need wet leaf surfaces to germinate and grow.
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Silverleaf nightshade * Subsection Melongena Solanum melongena L.
Host specificity of Anthonomus tenebrosus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a potential biological control agent of tropical soda apple (Solanaceae) in Florida
The search is on for insects, mites, microbes, or nematodes that could nibble on, gnaw through, or sicken silverleaf nightshade in a biologically based approach to controlling this noxious weed, which hails from the Americas but has spread to southern Europe, Africa, India, Australia, and elsewhere.
ARS overseas lab sets the stage for reuniting a weed and its enemies

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