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Much of our food comes from plants of the nightshade family: tomato, potato, eggplant… Discover the reasons behind its name and species that belong to it.

Surfinia, the hanging petunia with abundant blooming

 Surfinia flower

Eggplant, abundant till the end of summer

 Bountiful eggplant with a dozen eggplants.

Petunia, perpetually fashionable

 Petunia growing in a pot

Datura tips and guidance for the best possible care

 Datura flower, double or triple, with white and purple petals

Companion planting in the vegetable patch

 Raised beds with companion planting

Physalis, winter groundcherry, a plant with many therapeutic properties

 Physalis, a fruit with many benefits

Brunfelsia – “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” – Growing and Care

 Brunfelsia pauciflora

Solanum, Potato vine, a jasmine look-alike

 solanum jasminoides - potato vine

Brugmansia, gigantic flowers!

 Dangling brugmansia flower opening up to reveal peach-colored blooms.

Cyphomandra, a tree that’s part of the tomato family

 Cyphomandra fruits hanging from a tree

Cherry tomato, savoring the summer!

 Cherry tomatoes growing on the plant.

Datura or Brugmansia, Trumpets of discord

 White-yellow flower unfurling, still unclear whether it is a datura or a brugmansia flower.

Goji berry, a very interesting fruit tree

 Goji Berry - Lycium barbarum

Physalis, growing winter groundcherry

 physalis

Tamarillo, the tomato tree

 Tamarillo

Potato, how to grow and harvest potatoes

 Potato planting, care and harvest

Ornamental tobacco, beautiful flowers for a garden bed

 Ornamental tobacco

Calibrachoa, a cascade of colors

 Calibrachoa

Vitelotte, or black vitelotte, the China truffle

 A sliced vitelotte black potato on a fresh harvest shows its purple insides.

Chalice vine, solandra, a vine with stunning cup flowers

 Solandra chalice vine

Cestrum, a shrub with fragrant hanging flowers

 cestrum

Bell peppers and chili, fabulous to grow

 Growing bell pepper and chili

Black goji berry, a power-packed goji berry species

 Black goji

Tomatillo, the Mexican Physalis

 Green tomatillo fruits from growing the plant