I love your videos, Blanche. You have such a relaxing voice and thorough explanations.

I just discovered your channel. I'm studying botany at university and your channel has inspired me to explore and forage nature.

Yes! I live in Florida, US, and this plant appeared in my backyard spontaneously, I probably need to thank birds for it. And they are exactly the reason why I keep them. I have observed several birds eating them, especially mockingbirds. Thank you, Miss Blanche, for such a great infortmation.

My young child got a hold of these berries while playing on the driveway, found them behind an old stump where I don't go. He came to me covered in seeds and juice. I dabble in foraging, mostly on the mycology side, so I'm familiar with the dangers of unidentified plants. Fearing the worst I looked up the plant and found it to be Nightshade. In my frantic searching I found it was specifically Black Nightshade and saw it was possibly considered edible. After watching your video I am at ease that he didn't eat something toxic and will be fine. Thank you for your informative video!

My family used to pick the black nightshades every year on the field in large bags and used to cook and eat them as vegetables when we were younger. It leaves a delicious bitter taste in your tongue even after you have consumed it. I haven't eaten them for decades and I'm craving for it now. Great video and self explanatory, thank you so much for it

Plenty of black nightshade on my hiking trail. On a plant ID app it was identified as Garden Huckleberry in the nightshade family. Thanks for video.

Ah thank you!! I'm so happy I found this, by sheer luck I have let a giant nightshade grow in my garden, tying it with twine but considered it merely an indigenous poisonous ornamental edition, plus the birds like to eat of it's berries And now I know I have a huge yummy bounty to partake. Also apparently in folk medicine and ancient literature these were used to treat asthma.

love your narration!

Thank you so much for this video! Very informative. I had a black nightshade plant come up in one of my garden beds last year for the first time and I made a jam out of the berries. When cooked with sugar, they taste very similar to blackberries. Absolutely delicious. I spread some of the ripe berries throughout my garden in early winter in hopes that I would have more plants come up this year and they are ALL OVER the place!! What a delight! I can't wait to make more delicious jam from the berries and gift it to friends and family as something totally unique and special for the holidays.

Thank you for your thoughtfulness! You did a great job! I look forward to watching your other videos.

Your videos are as much lovely as instructive, thank you!

This looks very similar to a plant In India, called "manathakkali" (Tamil) means "ground tomato" ... We use leaves to prepare green stew (kuzhambhu) and green berries used as vegetable in other stew. Ripped ones can be eaten raw. This is plant is super healthy and especially good for women. (knowledge from my grandmother). One thing in doubt is, the plant available in India is NOT bitter at all.. It is very much tasty when cooked and easily available in local market :)

Thank you!! I have these growing all around my garden and I needed to know if these were edible. This information is very valuable

Thank you so much for this video. We have several of these growing in an area my hubby had prepared to grow strawberries. The strawberry seeds we planed didn't grow, but, these black nightshade did grow there. We waited until the berries were black, which they still are in the first week of January. Now we know they are safe to eat.

After watching a few other videos to help identify this plant, yours was the most helpful. Thank you for comparing them to the dangerous plants. Just tried one, and they taste like tiny tomatoes! ❤

I had a random edible night shade plant growing in a Lily I bought and I couldn't identify it until it was matured. And so the controversy began. And I keep telling my wife they are edible when they turn black but she thinks I'm gonna get sick lol but now I'm happy I got a bonus plant that I can let spread along my fence line.😊

Thanks for this young lady, I never would thought these where edible.

I am eating night shade seeds since 35 years. It is juicy sweet and sour and yes it has got refreshing taste. Thanks for the update.

Just discovered this channel as my interest for foraging grows❤

Thank you so much. This plant randomly sprouted 20-30 plants throughout my garden somehow this year, and they are now ripening.

I foolishly ate Atropa berries once because I was young and uneducated. I went on what I will call a "spiritual journey" for a while. I woke up with what felt like the worst hangover ever. From what I've read, I'm lucky to be alive.

Thank you for this video. I love your highly informative, no nonsense style

Very thorough. I appreciate you pointing you characteristics to compare between the edible plant and its lookalikes.

This randomly popped up in my garden so now I have a new plant to harvest. Your video helped thank you!

Of course... I've seen plenty of horse nettle and bittersweet nightshade, but not black nightshade yet in my area. Thanks for this awesome video. I love the blues song at the end also.

Yay! Thank you so much, now I know that there is tons of Black Nightshade growing around my school.

love your videos, so useful, and also just pleasant to watch and listen to your voice. you have a great voice!

Right now its November in California. I have thie plant in my backyard! Im exited to eat these! Well more of them as I have eaten 2 and they taste as a strange tomato! I love gathering my own food. Thank you for this!!

Thank you for your video. Now I'm more confident in trying some of these berries that grew up in my backyard. God bless

Great informative video. Nice to have the comparison to the dangerous varieties. We have just discovered the benefits of this tasty little weed ! Happy to let it grow.

Very articulate video Blanche as I go foraging in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maine. I’m in Connecticut at present and wanted to find this plant especially the berry not knowing these excellent distinctions with poisonous lookalikes. It was a large mountain of information and very much appreciated!! Enjoy your foraging!!

When I was little, I thought all nightshade was poisonous as I was told to avoid it... I did not know there were other identafiable varieties, one being edible so I found this very interesting! Thank you for this information!

Thank you! I foraged a few branches here in California at the lake we go to because they looked like miniature tomatoes. I was able to root a branch and ripen the berries for seeds from the other branches. I identified but was unsure about eating any until I just found and watched your video. 😊🌱❤

Thanks for this video! I am in the North Carolina Piedmont and found a few of these plants. I think the berries are very tasty! This is the only place I was able to identify this plant.

Thank you very much for your video on Edible Nightshade and its poisonous cousins! It's wonderful to learn something new, along with the review of information for a new Forager In-The -Making! God Bless! 🍇🍑🍒

Watched several videos with different people but after this video I’m super confident and completely trust you

Very helpfull . Thank you!

great videos! very informative, thanks for sharing

Great video. Garden full of them. Thank you.

Another excellent video Blanche!

Enjoyed the video very much. Thanks. Having one black nightshade vine in the backyard, which attracts a lot of birds.

You have the BEST wild edibles videos! Love your work, Blanche. Great photos and thorough explanations. Always look forward to more from you.

I've seen these berries, but never knew they're edible. Thank you for the great video!

I enjoyed these beautiful berries last season they are an AMAZING treat to my palette and my body. All PRAISES to THE CREATOR for these delicious berries.

Your voice is therapeutic. Thank you

I tasted the ones that are a weed in my garden. Sweet, seedy and very blue juice, I did spit it out but drying some berries for seeds. Very good video that makes it clear.

This is so helpful! I have these everywhere here in Ohio and was struggling to rid my pastures of it, but noticed the leaves were always eaten by insects. I thought they were poisonous so was always trying to get rid of them. Now I know it is another great resource on our homestead! I guess I will be spreading seed this fall for a good harvest next year!

I love to eat this plant. I'm from Guatemala and we the natives eat this a lot down there. I was soooo happy when I found it growing in my yard in Canada. I recognized it immediately. Your video is very informative. Thank you.

Thank you for this clear, informative video. Found this plant today, and consulted your video for information. Will try it.

Thank you for this informative video. I just got some seeds for these plants and looking forward to them. I was a bit skeptical but have done the research and went forward with ordering them.

Thank you for this! I had a few Black Nightshade spring up with my vegetables and was curious about if they could be eaten. Loved the video.

This is the best video about solanum nigrum on KZfaq. I can honestly say that because after filming mine I decided to see what other people had said about it, and I thought I'd watched all existing videos but this came up in my feed today. Many many KZfaqrs have click baity scary videos acting like they're scared to eat the one berry they're trying. Others say it's edible but have strict warnings that make it sound potentially dangerous. Even some seed companies that sell cultivars warn people not to eat the berries, and some reporter in the San Francisco chronicle said it was deadly poisonous and not to touch it! Interesting for a plant that "humans" ate before the evolution of Homo sapiens! I like how you showed the different sized berries on different types, your video could be played in a university classroom as part of a botany lesson!

This plant grows all over my yard. It arrived a year ago and it’s been spreading. Spread throughout the whole neighborhood pretty quick. I never knew it was a native plant until I went to a national park in San Diego and it was all over the place and this was in October so the suckers lived through the dry waterless summer of Southern California into autumn. Very tough adaptable plant. Grows in hot, cold, dry, wet places all over the world I’m starting to cultivate i took cuttings of several examples of them from my yard and planted seeds too. Native Birds and insects love a lot them very beneficial for the local ecosystem so that’s the main reason why I’m spreading them now, but also wanna try breeding them and growing them for the berries. Cool little plant for sure. Grows year round here too. They were still producing in the winter they don’t take any breaks despite their toughness they definitely appreciate being babied by a human they’ve self domesticated themselves in areas I water and grow way bigger there and make more berries than in the places they don’t get watered and are just growing wild.

Thank you so much! I just found this plant in the woods and it just looked delicious. I spent about half an hour trying to figure out if its edible and then i found this video. Thank you

Amazing Explanation !! I was very shocked when I read in wikipedia on the mention on it being poisonous by the name "Solanum Nigrum". In South India(Tamil nadu) its called as Manathakali and its a yummy delicacy along with rice(curries are made of leaves and the salt dried fruits ) . One of my favourite and i am happy she explained it clearly that there are deceptive family members of this plant . The difference it definitely huge that someone who is used to it must not make a mistake identifying the right black night shade.

I just discovered this Channel and I love it!

Thanks, very educational, especially since you show the dangerous ones. We have some of the good stuff on our stand and will enjoy them now we are educated.

I love your video, the way that you explain it it is so awesome. . Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful grand daughter!

Unbelievably good content and explanation. Thank you. I was wondering how to identify them easily in nature.

Hello Blanche! I saw this same exact plant n my backyard last year, I wasn’t sure if it was good or bad, so I did the old way testing, they have a sweetness to them. I sure hope they come back this year!!!!! Thank u

99% these have occurred naturally on my allotment all the way over in england, grimsby! thanks very much

I have weeded this from my garden on Australia. I was aware it was nightshade, but thought it was the poisonous deadly nightshade. I can now see there is a significant difference. With the poisonous one having the larger flowers, single larger berries with large sepal bases. Thankyou.

Hi, I just found your channel recently and I really enjoy it. :) Everything is well described and the video editing and footage is done well !!

This has taken over my garden and I kept ripping it out, for fear it would harm me and my children and for nothing! Thank you!!

I amThai. I grew up eating this a lot. I stir fried it with garlic, red chili, oyster sauce and abit of fish sauce with crispy pork belly. It tastes great 👍:)

I really liked your 50th's video and the music you had with. New survival Bushcraft prepping but I really like your plants talk to. Gingdah 🚶💀

I love your channel!

Wow love your video....always interested in what there is to eat outside.

Amazing and beautiful! I found a lovely weed and placed it roots and all in my pond sump filter. It's has grown exponentially with so many berries! Everyone tries to get me to pull it out but I just couldn't. It's one about 2 foot tall and full of berries hydroponically! It sure took to the pond water.

Πολύ ωραίο βίντεο. Ευχαριστούμε !!!

Thank you for this valuable information.

Panen panen... asyikkkk Sukses dan salam silaturahmi

Great video

You have anew sub... I have so many of these in my back yard !😊

Very interesting! Given plants and picked berry clusters, hoping the lighter berries will ripen ! Loved seeing you harvest berries and notice that you didn’t pull hard to get the ripe ones off, that teaches me to be patient! Guess I’ll have to wait until closer to fall to pick? I live in the NE corner of Kansas..

Oh, thank god I saw this! I had so many of the black nightshade in my garden last year and people in my garden group said they were deadly nightshade so I was panicked so weeded them out but couldn’t get all the berries

Thank you so much for this! I have this in my garden and I am happy to report it is the edible one. I planted peppers, but somehow these came up instead. I guess my pepper plants couldn't compete.

Very well made video!

Black nightshade grows abundantly and wild around my house in the forest I live in. It was so cool seeing them grow this last year, all their little ripe berries dotted with their pretty little white flowers. I left a bunch for the insects and birds, but I harvested about a pint last year. This year, I'm going to harvest much more and try to make some jam. I hope it turns out good, because they smell like salsa to me when I picked them! I also have the bittersweet nightshade growing wildly around my forest, thought i didn't know what it was until this video. I always wondered why birds never ate it.

very well done documentary!

Thank you. Well done!

Awesome video

Very good information, thank you.

I often ate the solanum ptychanthum fruit growning on the both sides of the rural road when it went black and I were a child, and now my family uses the leaves of this plant as vegetable and it tastes tasty a little bit bitter but sweaty right after that.

Great Vid, very informative, thx a lot

Thank you for this! I recently found out that a plant I thought was a yellow tomato since my grandpa had previously given me some to grow, is a black nightshade. They have very similar leaves. Though using your advice I think mine is safe, just to be sure me and my brother each had 2 berries, it tasted like a tomato, I’m going to wait 1-2 more days just to make sure I don’t have a reaction before I continue picking them. I ate the fruit about 3 hours ago and still feel perfectly fine so I’m hoping these were good :)

Informative 💐💐❤️

I had one pop up in my garden compost, I think. Just lived 24 hrs after ingesting my first berry!! August 2023....unmistakably black nightshade. Just wait till ready to drop, to be super safe. 😊😊😊

Kia ora from NZ we call this healing kai/food Poroporo... grew up a kid harvesting, growing eating Poroporo I'm 61 year(s) Good video... great to hear you eat these healing leaves/kai also. Mauri ora 🇳🇿👍🏻

awe man! I wish i watched this vid before I cut all of my plants X(

I sure would like to see you upload just a few more videos maybe couple a week? love your ch. / your easy to listen too :-) you appear to be pretty good with the camera and editing.

Thanks for the easy explanation

Quite nice video. I found this plant in the field long time ago;but its remained unknown to me until I watched this video. The berries are tasty. I still wonder how to grow them in the garden.

Thank you so much for the video. We eat this plant in my home country Kenya but was so confused when people here ( Israel) say they are poisonous.

I grow wonderberry which are variety of nightshade they are very good and productive. Chinese eat them green but they boil them before eating. I was looking for the recipe when I saw your video. It's call black nightshade nan pie.

Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏

So happy I saw this video. I have Black Nightshade fir very as in and happy I didn’t pull it out as I thought it may be a nonnative invasive. I hope birds will eat the berries, but maybe I should....

I love you Blanche. Your videos are truly delightful . I just found a spice bush and thought of you. Your right about eating them right away though.🤮

Hi, I was wondering if tossing some used coffee grounds onto the sub-straight of my nightshade, will help to keep pests away from the leaves? I'm growing the poison variety of nightshade as a beautiful creeper vine. My garden consists of mostly wild local perennial flowers. I'm in the Atlantic area of Canada & we share _so_ many plants & climate in common. Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge with us here on the KZfaq.😁 Happy gardening & hugs from this Canadian gal.🤗🍁 (new sub xo)