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Atropa acuminata
Indian belladonna (Atropa acuminata) is a perennial herb in the nightshade family, native to the western Himalaya and nearby mountains, closely related to deadly nightshade. It is grown mainly as a source of medicinal tropane alkaloids rather than as an ornamental, so it is best treated as a wild or specialist medicinal plant.
Atropa acuminata, also known as maitbrand or Indian belladonna, is a close relative of deadly nightshade of Europe and North Africa and, like it, is an extremely poisonous plant valued in medicine for its richness in tropane alkaloids with anticholinergic, deliriant, antispasmodic and mydriatic properties. The specific name acuminata signifies acuminate i.e. 'tapering to a long point' - in reference to the distinctive shape of the leaves.
Atropa acuminata is native to the Himalayas, being found in Eastern Afghanistan, the North of India and Pakistan : from Balochistan in the West to Kashmir in the East, in an area including also Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand (part of Uttar Pradesh until the year 2000) and Pakistan's Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The plant described under the name Atropa acuminata Royle ex Miers (which may be referable to A.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Atropa acuminata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
