Solanaceae

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Solanaceae
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• 2800 species
• Mostly herbaceous
• Alternate, simple leaves
• Flowers perfect, radially symmetrical, and
  5-merous
• Calyx and corrolla may be tubular to deeply cleft
• Single compound pistil of two carpels
• Superior ovary
• Axile placentation
• Fruit is a berry or capsule

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Tropane Alkaloids

• Hyoscyamine

• Atropine

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Brugmansia suaveolens
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Datura metel
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Atropa Belledonna
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Nicotiana tabacum
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Duboisia hopwoodii