Description
Solanaceae plants may take the form of herbs, shrubs, trees, or sometimes vines. The flowers are usually actinomorphic. Flower shapes are typically rotate (radiately spreading in one plane with a short tube) or tubular (elongated cylindrical tube), with four or five petals that are usually fused. Leaves are alternate. The fruit has axile placentation and is a berry as in the case of the tomato or wolfberry, or a dehiscent capsule as in Datura. The seeds of most solanaceae plants are round and flat, about 2–4 millimetres (0.079–0.16 in) in diameter. The stamens are epipetalous and are typically present in multiples of four or five, most commonly four or eight. The ovary is superior.
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