Plant-Lore

Collecting the folklore and uses of plants

Black nightshade

1. I talked to a Philippino man in Finsbury Park, who was gathering tips/shoots of black nightshade, he told me they used it in cooking as a flavouring for chicken! [London, N1, February 1997].

Images:  Chippenham, Wiltshire, August 2014; inset, Gloucester, September 2017.