Tip: Highlight text to annotate itX
This plant grows in the middle and north of europe, Asia and in the north africa, in Catalonia they grow in a wet forests, in the Pyrinees or in the Pre-pyrinees between 800 and 1500m.
A perenial bush, in the family of Soplanaceae ,they have a robust, anual and downy stem.
Upper leaves geminate, ovate and acuminate
They have a axillary and pendulous flowers, their corolla is stroke and their colour are purple and ocher.
Their androecium have five stamens, this stamnes which are curved in the top have diferent length, their anthers are ellipsoidal and white.
Their gynoecium have an ovarian super with a void receptacle in the bottom and a peltate stigma.
Fruits are a black, shiny and sfereic berry abaout 15 a 20 mm, when the berrys are unripe are green.
The leaves and the roots are used as a drug of this plants and contain atropine and escopolamine.
Atropine stimulates medulla and the respiratory center, casuses mydriasis and oftalmic paralizes, goes down the heart frequency and decreases the persitaltic contractions.
Escopolamine produces sleepiness, attends parkinson and dizzines, and goes down the heart frequency.
A toxic plant, 0,5 mg decreases the heart frequency, 1 mg produces tachycardia and oral dryness, 2 mg produces tachycardia, blurred vision and mydriasis,
With 5 mg the same as 2 mg with dysphagia and fatigue. With 10 mg fast pulse, blurred vision , alucinations, delirium, coma and death
