How does the black nightshade flower open at six in the morning?

1. How it opens

The black nightshade flower is a clock flower and opens according to a certain time. Its flowering period is around September to October each autumn. During this period, at around six o'clock in the early morning, the black nightshade flower slowly unfurls its petals. The flower is rather small and lovely, with a white corolla, relatively short filaments, and yellow anthers inside, making it very appealing.

Besides the black nightshade flower, plants such as the spreading hedgeparsley flower, morning glory, wild rose, Chinese peony, sun rose, goosefoot, marigold, four o'clock flower, tobacco flower and epiphyllum are all clock flowers.

2. Basic introduction

1. Family and genus: The black nightshade flower is an annual herbaceous plant in the Solanaceae family and Solanum genus. It is also called niu suan jiang, wu tian cai, wu zi cai, tian qie zi and so on.

2. Distribution range: The black nightshade flower originated in China and is now widely distributed across Eurasia, the Americas, Australia and elsewhere. It likes to grow in warm, humid places and is mostly found along roadsides and in fields.

3. Morphological characteristics: It is an annual erect herb, about 0.25-1 m tall. The stem is green or purple, smooth and hairless, sometimes with fine soft hairs. The leaves are ovate, about 2.5-10 cm long. The berry is spherical, about 8 mm in diameter, and turns black when ripe.

4. Propagation method: It is mostly propagated by sowing seeds.