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Nightshade plants are funny. Apparently, repeated exposure to poison ivy can make you also react to cashews- my dad had to stop eating them for quite awhile aft
by zdragnar 3y ago
Nightshade plants are funny. Apparently, repeated exposure to poison ivy can make you also react to cashews- my dad had to stop eating them for quite awhile after he'd had a few particularly bad exposures a few years in a row.
Aside from the notable tomato and potato, there's also cashew, eggplant, tobacco, chili and bell peppers, gooseberry, goji and huckleberries, and a few others.
- anon291 3y agoNightshades are members of the Solanaceae family. Huckleberries are not nightshades. You are confusing the garden huckleberry (solanum nigrum) with the actual huckleberry, which is a member of the Heath family (Ericaceae). Actual huckleberries are incredibly difficult to grow and only grow on mountains. The garden huckleberry is a tomato relative that has similar looking fruits and some say a similar taste and is easier to grow. Hence the name. Cashews are also not nightshades. Cashews are members of the cashew/mango family. All plants are highly allergenic. Many people have cashew problems, and many many people have reactions to the outer skin of the Mango. Poison Ivy is in the mango/cashew family. They are part of the Anacardiaceae family. Gooseberries... you are thinking of the cape gooseberry. The cape gooseberry is a nightshade. Real gooseberries are members of the currant family Grossulariaceae. Gooseberries are very distinct from a cape gooseberry. The two plants are actually not very similar looking at all. Cape gooseberries, like many nightshades, grow in a husk (like a tomatillo). Real gooseberries do not. The rest are indeed nightshades. Sorry for the pedantry, but these are all very different plants.