Brazilian Nightshade, Solanum seaforthianum, Solanaceae. South America.

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Brazilian Nightshade is a flowering evergreen vine native to tropical South America. The plant contains modest amounts of various tropane alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine and should be considered mildly toxic and inedible. The species has become widely naturalised outside its native range and is an invasive species in Australia, Africa, Indochina, the Pacific Islands and India, choking native vegetation and poisoning livestock.

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