#carolinense

[drafthearse]

Tozeuma carolinense, arrow shrimp, 50mm. Cobb Bay, Northampton County, Virginia - 08/19/14. Photo by Robert Aguilar, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

[uxbridge]

Carolina horsenettle about to bloom

[hexandbalances]

I found an interesting, faintly thorny plant with delicately pale purple flower growing around my compost. After a little searching I identified it as Solanum carolinense, commonly called "Carolina Horsenettle", but also affectionately referred to as "the Apple of Sodom" or "the Devil's Tomato". I am still a fairly miserable gardener, but I have been blessed with the favor of nightshades.

[ronthafrog]

Some flowering plants I've photographed over the last few days. All of these were observed near or in mountain streams.

Top Left: Sneezeweed (Helenium sp.)

Top Right: American Water-Willow (Justica americana)

Bottom Left: Carolina Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense)

Bottom Right: Fleabane (Erigeron sp.)

[carolinawrenn]

Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense). Also known as apple of Sodom, bull nettle, devil's potato, devil's tomato, poisonous potato, thorn apple, and wild tomato. As some of its names suggest, it's quite poisonous.

[rjalker]

KK: survey:

what are your favorite plant species? List out as many as you want.

You don't have to link to them (you can just list them in the tags), but you can if you want.

Mine:

Peppervne, Nekemias arborea

Small-flower pawpaw, Asimina parviflora

Common milkweed, Asclepias incarnata

American pokeweed, Phytolacca americana

Common persimmon, Diospyros virginiana

Roundleaf Bluet, Houstonia procumbens

Carolina Horsenettle, Solanum Carolinense

[swamp-boggler]

Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense).

Dover Village Park, OH.

[whatsbloomingnow]

Carolina Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense L. var. carolinense)

Solanaceae (Potato Family) Synonym(s): Carolina Horse Nettle, Horse Nettle, Radical Weed, Sand Brier, Bull Nettle, Tread-Softly, Devil’s Tomato, Wild Tomato. Base Flower Color: WhiteReproductive Phenology: May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sept, OctNotes: Ingesting the fruit can cause abdominal pain, circulatory and respiratory depression, or even death. For more information about this plant, Click Here.

[depajaritos]

Thryothorus ludovicianus, cucarachero de Carolina o ratona carolinense. Paseriforme de la familia Troglodytidae.

Posee una ceja blanca marcada. Es marrón por encima con transversales simétricas blancas en alas y cola, blanco- beige a anaranjado por debajo. Pico curvado. Cola larga y levantada. Propio de América del norte y central .

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Carolina Wrens (Thryothorus ludovicianus)

April 26, 2023

Williamsburg Arboretum, Freedom Park, Williamsburg, Virginia

[rayssajyi]

A economia da cidade é principalmente voltada para o turismo, que remonta à tempos passados, considerando os atrativos naturais. Para o comércio, são realizadas atividades extrativistas de produtos naturais, como pequi, buriti, macaúba, babaçu e muitos outros, que compõe a culinária local juntamente com a pesca nos rios e ribeirões próximos, além de serem utilizadas no artesanato. A cultura de soja e a criação de gado também são parte integram da economia carolinense.

[konjaku]

悪茄子[Warunasubi] Solanum carolinense

It is native to the United States. The fruit is called Devil's tomato or Apple of Sodom.

This plant is poisonous, has thorns, has strong fertility, attracts twenty eight spotted potato ladybird(Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata,) which is harmful to vegetables in the same eggplant family as this, and causes a continuous crop failure when mixed with eggplant family vegetables.

The Japanese name means bad eggplant. It produces white flowers that similar to eggplants from late spring to early autumn.

These fruits were plentiful on a roadside in the countryside. I have a feeling they will thrive in abundance again next year.

[kekeferoce]

Draped Dreams / Sueños Drapeados #fashiondesign #silhouette #fashion #kekerohena #happyness #color #drape #drapes #patternmaking #carolinense #puertorico #goodlifepuertorico #pattern #designer (at Carolina, Puerto Rico) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJHcrylGkK/?igshid=nnjrtgo3ciwf

[hanasakig3]

ワルナスビ　#オニナスビ　#アレチナスビ　#ノハラナスビ　#solanum #carolinense #carolinahorsenettle #horsenettle #花　#flower #ガーデニング　#gardening #花言葉　#欺瞞　#悪戯 https://www.instagram.com/p/CeTD9BkBmBD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[walks-the-garden]

Here's some of the wild, native, perennial nightshades growing at our local park!

Solanum Carolinense, aka Carolina Horsenettle, very spiny and also toxic to humans, but an important food source for native birds including wild turkeys and quail!

These guys spread through both seeds and underground runners, so they're considered a noxious weed in a few states outside their native range; one site I just found says one plant can produce up to 5,000 seeds, which require cold stratification before they will sprout, meanwhile, the plants roots send up new shoots each spring during the warmer months.

Here's some pictures of the flowers, and immature fruit; from Google we know that when the fruit are actually mature, they'll turn orange/yellow and usually hang around on the plant all winter even after the leaves and stems have died back completely.

Some plants had lavender purple flowers. While others had pure white, sometimes both on the plant at the same time! I believe that like some other nightshades, the flowers start out purple and turn white as they age over the course of a day or two.

If you're ever walking down a park or forest path, keep your eyes peeled! Nightshade/Solanacae flowers are one of the easiest things to recognize, and they come in all sizes, with many of them having at least a handful of different species native to each US state, a few of which are edible, like the wild Groundcherries that can be found all over the United States!

[deathtek]

7/30/22

[cazort]

this is one of my favorite beetles, i love them

if you want to support them, their preferred host is Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense) but they also eat Physalis species (ground-cherries and tomatillos.) If you plant Carolina horsenettle, you will get them!

They will not eat your potato plants. Besides tomatillos they don't usually touch food plants, and they only ever eat plants in the Nightshade family.

False Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa juncta)

May 14, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania