black nightshade. Not toxic berries but a lot of people are turned off due to the name. Pretty common weed
CoookieCat
Black nightshade! The berries taste like a berry and a tomato mixed together. Not bad.
IWantToBeAProducer
Nightshade of some kind.
nefe375
Iirc, they are somewhat toxic if eaten unripened. I would advise to eradicate asap and they are highly invasive.
Source: been trying to eradicate these in my garden for almost 3-4 years now.
Thelordofprolapse
Nightshade friend
Redditor2684
I think I had these pop up in my garden too. I let them get pretty big but then pulled them because I figured they were a weed and might be a bad kind of milkweed.
ignescentOne
Related question – do hornworms like it better than my actual tomato plants? Because i would love some sacrificial options to have both hummingbird moths and tomatoes! (I don’t want to plant tobacco)
Emergency-Crab-7455
Tomatoes are part of the nightshade family (there are people who cannot eat them due to allergies).
Think of it as that cousin from the wrong side of the tracks, that’s been crashing at your tomato’s place. Time to move him out.
Rude-Distribution993
We call it manathakkali where I’m from (southern India). We used to forage the ripe berries when we were kids 🙂 The leaves and fruit have medicinal properties and we use them in our cooking too.
cheezweiner
Do rabbits like to eats those berries/seeds? We have one particular area of our fence that rabbits always dig to go under and just up from that path we have this black nightshade. Wondering if their poo is spawning them in my yard.
ShapedLikeAnEgg
My neighborhood birds love these, and gift me seeds every year.
Wobblycogs
Looks like a nightshade to me, not sure which type
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black nightshade. Not toxic berries but a lot of people are turned off due to the name. Pretty common weed
Black nightshade! The berries taste like a berry and a tomato mixed together. Not bad.
Nightshade of some kind.
Iirc, they are somewhat toxic if eaten unripened. I would advise to eradicate asap and they are highly invasive.
Source: been trying to eradicate these in my garden for almost 3-4 years now.
Nightshade friend
I think I had these pop up in my garden too. I let them get pretty big but then pulled them because I figured they were a weed and might be a bad kind of milkweed.
Related question – do hornworms like it better than my actual tomato plants? Because i would love some sacrificial options to have both hummingbird moths and tomatoes! (I don’t want to plant tobacco)
Tomatoes are part of the nightshade family (there are people who cannot eat them due to allergies).
Think of it as that cousin from the wrong side of the tracks, that’s been crashing at your tomato’s place. Time to move him out.
We call it manathakkali where I’m from (southern India). We used to forage the ripe berries when we were kids 🙂 The leaves and fruit have medicinal properties and we use them in our cooking too.
Do rabbits like to eats those berries/seeds? We have one particular area of our fence that rabbits always dig to go under and just up from that path we have this black nightshade. Wondering if their poo is spawning them in my yard.
My neighborhood birds love these, and gift me seeds every year.
Looks like a nightshade to me, not sure which type