Solanum grows best in full sun or light shade. The light requirements may vary depending on the species; some are understory plants in their native habitat.

The leaves are cooked and used as spinach by cardiac patients [23]. Table showing ethnobotanical uses of Solanum villosum. Treatment of leucorrhoea, nappy rash, wounds, cold sore.

Edibility: The plant is toxic, particularly the leaves and berries.

nightshade, (genus Solanum), genus of about 2,300 species of flowering plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae). The term nightshade is often associated with poisonous species, though the genus also contains a number of economically important food crops, including tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), potato (S.