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Family of solanaceae
The sight of this shrub, covered with bright yellow and black berries,
gives always a shiver. The beauty of this plant associated with the idea
of poison and death it gives makes belladonna be a plant rich of mystery.
Atropa was the Parca who cut the thread which represented the life of
men and the name belladonna is due to the fact that beautiful women, during
the Renaissance, used this kind of drug to dilate their pupils.
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