Purple Berry Nightshade Family. The mature deep blue or purple berries are sometimes used for making jams and pies. The deadly nightshade is a highly poisonous plant containing toxins including atropine scopolamine and hyoscyamine.
This plant is toxic to people pets and livestock. Deadly nightshade is a perennial bushy herb that grows in arid lands reaches a height of 15 m but can grow 2m and has greenish purple flowers oval leaves and purple-black spherical sweet berries. The variety tatula differs in having purple stems and pale mauve flowers and is the form most often found in Cape May.
The deadly nightshade is a highly poisonous plant containing toxins including atropine scopolamine and hyoscyamine.
Nightshades are a large and diverse family of plants. They have solitary bisexual regular flowers with 5 rarely 3 4 or 6 separate or united sepals and 5 united petals. The bell-shaped flowers are dull purple with green tinges and faintly scented. Its leaves are light green.
