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Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), also known as belladonna, dwale, Banewort, Devil's Cherries, Naughty Man's Cherries, Divale, Black Cherry, Devil's Herb, Great Morel, and Dwayberry, is a well-known perennial herbaceous plant, ...

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deadly nightshade: see belladonna; nightshade.

Deadly Nightshade
should be renamed Lovely Nightshade
A volunteer appeared at the foot of the deck stairs in the back yard, between pavers. It was a very pretty trailing green vine.

Belonging to the Deadly Nightshade family, which also includes the tomato, Brugmansia comprises about 20 different species, nearly all of them poisonous. There are a number of cultivars, some with pink or yellow flowers.

Deadly nightshade, belladonna (Atropa belladonna)
Desert rose, kudu (Adenium obesum)
Deutzia (Deutzia species)
Devil's backbone, kalanchoe daigremontianum (Kalanchoe daigremontianum)
Dewberry (Rubus caesius)
Dill (Anethum graveolens) ...

Atropa (Deadly nightshade) - poisonous; skin irritant
Autumn crocus See Colchicum
Baneberry - see Actaea section Actaea
Belladonna lily - see Amaryllis belladona
Bluebell - see Hyacinthoides
Bottle gourd - see Lagenaria ...

Also known as deadly nightshade, it was thought to offer protection against witchcraft long ago in England. Zone 3.

Daisy, Dame's Violet, Dark Mullein, Dark Red Helleborine, Dark-leaved Willow, Deadly Nightshade, Deergrass, Dense Silky-bent, Dense-flowered Orchid, Deptford Pink, Devil's-bit Scabious, Dewberry, Diapensia, Dioecious Sedge, Distant Sedge, Dittander, ...

Tobacco belongs to the potato family and, as such, is related to the tomato, pepper and deadly nightshade. The early explorers and conquistadors encountered natives smoking the leaf. Cortez shipped leaf back to Spain in 1519.

Linnaeus for some time objected to the use of the Potato on account of its connexion with the Deadly Nightshade and Bittersweet.

The nightshade family includes many other important vegetables, such as tomato ( ); Irish potato ( ); eggplant ( ); and tomatillo ( ); and some poisonous ones such as tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum); and deadly nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).

See also: Nightshade, May, Potato, Green, Solanum