Deadly nightshade blooms with drooping, tubular blossoms. The plant’s purple flowers are followed by shiny black berries. Deadly nightshade is endemic in regions stretching from southern and ...

Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, England, is home to the Poison Garden, which contains around 100 deadly and toxic plants.

This link comes from the ancient Greeks who felt the plant's leaves resembled a basilisk's opening jaws. Maybe you'll pause before sprinkling your friend's pizza with this hateful herb next time… ...

One of the weeds nearly everyone recognizes is the thistle. There are numerous thistles but the ones that make the Prohibited Weed List in Minnesota are the Canada thistle and the plumeless ...

a toxic plant commonly known as deadly nightshade. Customers do not need to speak to a pharmacist, and no information about potential side effects is published either on the pharmacy’s website ...

creating lots of competition with crop plants for light. Black nightshade is often confused with deadly nightshade (Atropa bella-donna), which is a much more poisonous weed than black nightshade, and ...

The Poison Garden at Alnwick Garden is home to more than 100 potentially lethal plants, including deadly nightshade, wolf’s bane, henbane, cannabis and khat. This outreach event gave people a chance ...

Deadly nightshade is also known as belladonna, meaning beautiful lady in Italian, because it was used in eye-drops to make women's pupils dilate. Sources: Natural Histories and Psychology Today.