The Solanaceae, or nichtshades, are an economically important faimily o flouerin plants. The faimily ranges frae yerbs tae trees, an includes a nummer o important agricultural craps, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, an ornamentals. Mony members o the faimily contain potent alkaloids, an some are heichly toxic, but mony culturs eat nichtshades, in some cases as staple fuids. The faomily belangs tae the order Solanales, in the asterid group dicotyledons (Magnoliopsida).[2] The solanaceae faimily consists o approximately 98 genera an some 2,700 species,[3] wi a great diversity o habitats, morphology an ecology.

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