Tropicals & Tender Perennials: A very poisonous european Brugmansia relative, 1 by monika

monika wrote:
This is the Tollkirsche (crazy, nuts, insane cherry), a european Solanaceae relative. Its Alkaloid contents is much higher as of in Europe cultivated Brugmansias. After the first poisonings happened and the boulevard press pushed it up, parents, teachers (!) and politicans requested, that the drug plant Brugmansia should be banned by law out of german nurseries and gardens. It seemed to be completely forgotten, that Europe has its ' drug ' plants too. Young people, with a botanic book, can easy find this plant. One black berry of Atropa belladonna can be absolut deadly for a child. The other one is Bilsenkraut, poisonous but not in such degree as Atropa belladonna.
The flower looks much like a small sanguinea.