solanum

/ (səʊˈleɪnəm) /

any tree, shrub, or herbaceous plant of the mainly tropical solanaceous genus Solanum: includes the potato, aubergine, and certain nightshades

Word Origin for solanum

C16: from Latin: nightshade

Solanum spirale occurs in abundance, and the trees commence to be clothed with ferns.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The |William Griffith
De Candolle alludes to a case of the kind in the bean, and figures a species of Solanum with three cotyledons.

Vegetable Teratology |Maxwell T. Masters
And when I find, to my sorrow, that potatoes have hearts I shall think of Solanum.

Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight |Emily Mayer Higgins
In 1580 they sent it home, and there is evidence that by 1580 the Solanum tuberosum had been planted in North America.

Storyology |Benjamin Taylor

The fruits of the horse nettle (Solanum carolinense) were also eaten.

A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas |Edwin P. Martin