Nightshade

Bittersweet nightshade growing along the former railway tracks a couple of hundred metres from my house. They are often called "deadly nightshade." The berries look like tiny tomatoes, less than a cm across. In my youth, in the early 1970s, I chewed some up (and spit them out); they *tasted* like tomatoes, too. I was interested in the berries as a potential wild food, and didn't know until I got home later that day and looked the plant up in a guide that it was nightshade. Lucky man to be still here, hey?

(Apparently though, the ripe berries have a lower toxicity than the green unripe ones, or the leaves.)