Your backyard may be a place of peace, play, and plant life—but some of that greenery could be more dangerous than it looks. From innocent-looking tulips to the deceptively beautiful deadly nightshade ...

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No doubt many have been told about the "deadly nightshades," and this is one of those plants that is beautiful to admire but poisonous if any of its parts are eaten. Although the Paraguay nightshade ...

Anyone with a garden has likely seen a black nightshade at one time or another. In the words of Linda Roehm, who gardens in Lomita and sought its identity in an email with a photo, “Little white ...

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