In 1500s Europe, healers used deadly nightshade (then called “dwale”) to put patients to sleep while performing surgeries and cauterizations. Leaves were soaked in wine vinegar and placed on ...

As with fathen and redroot, it can grow tall and leafy, creating lots of competition with crop plants for light. Black nightshade is often confused with deadly nightshade (Atropa bella-donna), which ...

Deadly plants include highly toxic species such as nightshade (Atropa belladonna), hemlock (Conium maculatum), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), and ricin-producing castor bean (Ricinus communis).

Tomatoes are part of the nightshade family, a group of plants known for producing natural toxins. Some of their relatives, ...

Decades before The Flash was running around, Central City had another protector, The Nightshade. After defeating his greatest enemy, the technological mastermind, The Ghost, he went into retirement.

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.