Atropa baetica
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Atropa baetica, commonly known as the Andalusian belladonna, is one of Europe's rarest wildflowers. A close relative of the infamous deadly nightshade, its specific name derives from that of the Roman
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Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, specialist on the flora of the Iberian Peninsula and authority for the binomial name Atropa baetica
Lectotype (dated July 13,1845) of Atropa baetica held at Herbarium of the University of Coimbra, Portugal (COI). Image enhanced, revealing original colours of specimen in life
Atropa
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Atropa is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae: tall, calcicole, herbaceous perennials, bearing large leaves and glossy berries particularly dangerous to children, due to t
Atropa baetica
…bearing infundibuliform (i.e. funnel-shaped), yellow or greenish flowers and shiny, black berries. Like the other three (generally accepted) species of Atropa, it is an extremely poisonous plant, containing a variety of tropane alkaloids with anticholinergic, deliriant, antispasmodic and mydriatic properties…
Atropa belladonna