"Wormwart my favorite!... And Frog's Breath?" "What? I thought you liked Frog's Breath?" "Nothing is more suspicious than Frog's Breath. Until you taste it, I'm not eating a spoonful."
I drank a tea brewed out of the leaves. Didn't know much about it at the time and figured it was just a crazy drug. That it was, I was talking to people who weren't there and kept seeing bugs crawling on my skin. Worst thing I've ever done.
And that children is called a deliriant, let's avoid those because you aren't oriented x 3 (person, place, time) and that can be quite dangerous (look up stories on datura)- much safer and much more fun to stick to hallucinogens! And if you don't know the difference, keep walking - neither is for you! Cheers
I ate 2 berries. First it felt like a weed trip, i was laughing but 30 minutes in everything started spinning, i had to sit down. My breathing got louder and my heart started pounding. I sit like that for 30 minutes and it got worse and worse. It then reached its peak, my body tensed and i threw up so much. I felt much better afterwards. Friends said its like datura but its not, this is garbage, datura gives a better "high"
I used to pick nightshade berries all the time, squish the berries, and rub the juice on my lips as a kid. Never knew what it was until my neighbor went white as a sheet and took them from me. Haha oopsies.
If you were in North America, you were most likely fine. The native nightshade loses toxicity as the berries ripen. Fully ripe is actually perfectly safe to eat.
“Found those by the creek, did you?” “Mm-hmm.” “They’re nightshade berries.” “Mmm.” “They’re poisonous.” *abruptly stops eating and spits the berries out* (it’s a “Brave” reference)
Nowadays, the compound “Atropin“ from the berry’s scientific name “Atropa belladonna” is still used in ophthalmology for the exact function it had for the vain women of yore. But rather than to look pretty, ophthalmologists use it because they need a dilated pupil so they can look inside the eye better for diagnostic purposes
Yeah exactly. Atropine is derived from it. It's a potent anticholinergic, and it's pretty vastly used. I don't know why these people are saying it's not used nowadays.
@@evangrey2523 They probably just read wikipedia and honestly that's all it's written there. For some reason the wiki page has nothing about the usage of atropine and scopolamine that it contains, but if they did a thorough research they could've found that it's actually widely used. We mostly use atropine for bradycardia.
I hope we can talk about more deadly/poisonous plants, I find then really interesting, mostly things like mushrooms, but other things like White Snake Root are also cool!
Oo! Oo! The Amanita family of mushrooms is fascinating! Fly agaric, the red and white fairy mushroom, is part of the Amanita family, and is super toxic! 🍄
@@Evergreen_Trees_are_cool Yes yes yes!!! These popped up in abundance in my childhood yard last year for the first time ever. There's also a lot of fox glove, which if I remember correctly is also toxic.
Ageratina altissima, the white snakeroot. Looks like a boneset plant. Fun fact, it is blamed for the death of Abraham Lincoln's mother. Dairy livestock can pass the toxins into milk after eating the foliage. It was a serious issue in America, one thing that led to FDA/USDA type regulations and inspection.
Why do all the deadly dangerous things have such a cool Aesthetic? Just look at the way it's leaves are arranged around the berries. It's just gorgeous.
Since you’re looking at deadly plants, you should talk about Oleander! I never expected it to be as deadly as it is considering you see it everywhere in tropical areas. And it’s pretty too. But it’s SUPER toxic, like even a rain puddle that forms under it could be toxic
@@sayzar9474 Foxglove is one that was common in my hometown and one time a pair of tourists mistook it for something else and died after making tea from the leaves.
“I have a deadly nightshade So twisted does it grow- with berries black as midnight And a skull as white as snow The vicar’s cocky young son Came to drink my tea He touched me without asking now he’s buried ‘neath a tree” - traditional Girls Skipping Rhyme from Chokely in Wynterset
All those are classified as "Nachtschattengewächse" here in Germany, "Nachtschatten" literarily translating to nightshade. So yep, would probably make sense they're related in some way or another. And both potatoes and tomatoes are producing toxins as well. Yeah well, and we all should know by now that tobacco isn't the most healthy plant to consume, I guess 😅
Maybe that explains my long held aversion to tomatoes and peppers. I've always hated them. Maybe it's a coincidence? Or perhaps it's an evolutionary or genetic trait that I had somehow inherited. Perhaps something inside me would simply be saying "NO!" if I tried to bring a tomato or pepper near my mouth. Or maybe I just don't like the taste. I even refuse ketchup!
@@atis9061 That's not witchcraft, that's basic Greek mythology. Sure, modern day Wiccans often have no issues praying to Greek gods in general and are often fans of mythology in general, but I don't think it's the same.
I had a small plant growing in the dog kennel that I didn’t notice, and a litter of puppies chewed on the leaves… No berries, didn’t even swallow any of the pieces of the leaves they just chewed on it… I nearly lost a whole litter of puppies.
The dilated pupil thing was more than looking unique. Someone back then noticed that human pupils dilate as an arousal response. The eyedrops were intended to make the user look more receptive and, hopefully, more attractive thereby.
You mention that bees sometimes make toxic honey from belladonna nectar - I think an entire episode on the "Mad Honey" made from toxic plants like rhododendrons would be really interesting!
This is honestly by FAR my favorite UA-cam channel! Your stuff is always of such high quality and both you and Danielle are always so enjoyable to watch!
Dude, I had tons of these plants in my backyard growing up as a kid. My mom just thought they were wild plants from the woods behind us. I never ate any of the berries, but I used to smash them up with my hands. I also got sick a lot growing up, could that be the reason?
This plant may be poisonous, but modern chemistry and biochemistry has also been able to extract lifesaving drugs from it. Belladonna extract is used to dilate pupils for eye exams and other alkaloids from the plant are used as blood vessel dilators to keep heart attack, stroke, and embolism patients alive while doctors try to find the affected blood vessels with camera catheters.
@@TheFos88 Nuclear fusion is also a force of nature as it is what powers the stars, and we are just starting to learn how to initiate and control it's output artificially. Once we fully master it, all of the nearby planets and asteroids will be opened up to us too.
He is probably fine. As she said, you can eat a handful. I wonder how exactly they found out that two berries can kill a child (2:14). How many children were used to test that one berry is save and two is too much?
@@bultvidxxxix9973 I think they just calculate the lethal amount of these alkaloids per kilogram/pound, and then they can calculate how much can kill a child, keeping in mind that children are sometimes more sensitive to substances.
If this is like certain super poisonous berry in Germany, people have eaten few of them by accident, gotten to the hospital and survived. The information about the sweetness was gained by study of the survivors vomit to determine the plant, and interviewing the survivors about the taste.
@@bultvidxxxix9973 That kind of information isn't usually found by intentional scientific testing but rather in the aftermath of accidents where people have unknowingly consumed a toxic substance and are interviewed/studied afterwards. It is possible to roughly determine the lethal dose of such toxins without testing but exact values are almost impossible to predict because of the huge number of variables involved in the chemistry of the human body. Some people could die after eating a single berry and others could survive eating several. Medical science is mostly about figuring out the most consistent result for the majority of cases rather than cataloging the plethora of circumstances behind every individual case. It just isn't practical to do so even if it were possible in the first place.
Belladonna does have medical value. The drops you mentioned are still used by optometrists to dilate the eyes and it’s also used to make Scopolamine, which is a prescription anti-nausea patch. The patch is placed behind the ear and is typically used by travelers to prevent motion sickness.
According to family lore my Great Great Aunt Rhetta was a hat maker and had asthma she said was a result of inhaling the dust from cutting velvet and wool for hats. She used Dr. Schiffmann’s Powder as a bronchial asthmador which contained belladonna as one of its active ingredients. She would place the powder in a tin and light it on fire, breathing in the the pale green smoke. Afterwards she would read tea leaves for the young cousins leading them to think she was a witch.
What about an episode on plants that move, and what causes that movement? Like how sunflowers follow the sun, venus flytrap and other carnivorous plants, Mimosa and Maranta for example. Oh, and exploding fruits, like Impatiens and exploding cucumber!
"the berries are slightly sweet but if you eat more than a handful you might be in terrible" ...... Slowly puts a single berry in mouth while looking around to see if anyone is watching
@@666summerz if by prepare you mean extract isolate measure and dilute and possibly weaponize then absolutely but out of all the the plants in the world it's more like uranium rather than meteorite on the sacred scale
Someone mentioned that this plant is used to make atropine (and I looked it up and it does!). This is a lifesaving drug so important that we use it as an ACLS (advanced cardiovascular life support) medication for bradycardia (slow heart rate) and an antidote for organophosphate poisonings (pesticides and sarin gas that causes you to vomit and diarrhea to death). Literally a life saving medication! That would have been really cool to include in the video, maybe make a second video? Also it would be cool to make videos about other plants that have been turned into modern medicines. Glad to hear Danielle and Andres are alright! Scared me for a minute!!! 😂
@@animalogic In the future, I'd recommend adding a disclaimer to the video itself immediately below the joke itself. Just to prevent people who are less cynical or don't read the comments from freaking out.
@@gordonramsay3034 I would not do that if I were you tripping on stuff that is poisonous is not safe at all man I've so many stories of people trying to go that route and it always ends very badly
You missed an important factoid. The fruit is designed to feed birds to whom it is non toxic and who deposit the seeds everywhere with a little fertiliser donation.
Your hoya!! I love this series so much, but I got super excited for you when I saw your hoya compacta in the background is about to bloom. Your living wall is so amazing and I admire it everytime you post.
There are several varieties of Nightshade around the world, and most aren't toxic. It isn't always easy to distinguish them however. But others are a great snack.
I think they still use a very dilute amount of belladonna for some eye exams. My eyes were very sensitive to light for a day or so. (I was with my parents and am a male anyways, so I didn't get any comments along the lines of "you look like you're in love.". The cosmetic use is because our pupils dilate slightly when we are extremely interested in something/someone [& of course when it is dark and we need to collect more light to form an image], so belladonna became a way to exaggerate that and look "romantic.")
One of the places my husband and I lived, in Auckland, New Zealand, had a variety of deadly nightshade with these beautiful little white flowers and glossy purple-black berries. We didn't know what it was, until, at my husband's behest, his father, who was a professional landscaper, came over to clean up the property. It was such a pretty-looking plant, it was a shame it had to go, but, well... an excellent example, perhaps, of something covered by the legal term "attractive nuisance"...
He's smarter than my friend's aunt. They have little dogs they love, and I pointed out that those plants they had were poisonous. (Hydrangeas, I think.) So we pulled them out and bought new ones. That evening her spouse came home from work and didn't like the new plants. Chose new ones to replace them and . . . replaced them with the SAME DANG THING! Still annoys me that her aunt gives way to her spouse without a second thought or word about everything even when it doesn't make any sense. (They are both women, but hate it when people use the term wife for some reason. So spouse it is.)
Hi, Tasha The Amazonian The Ancient Goddess Of War in Pre Roman Society is known as Bellona. Her Priestesses would consume this plant for battle rituals (Men who served this Goddess did so as well) and The Deadly Nightshade was thus named after Her.
Excuse me...what?? Which one? Sims 3 or 4? Bet you can't do anything cool with it though, and make a "tea" and give it to other sims to off them. :P I really miss the Cow Plant, and that you could drink it's "milk" (once it ate another sim) essence in order to stave off death by a few more days. It was fucked up, but awesome!
I really love floralogic. Each new video is a treat to me as a plant lover. It would nice if you guy make a video about invasive plant species around the world.
Thank you so much for making this video. I live in South Florida and wild deadly nightshade plants grow fairly commonly in yards around here. I tried to show my family the plant and tell them its dangerous but they think I'm exaggerating. Now I can show them this. :)
Also remind them not to plant oleander (Nerium oleander, overplanted throughout the state). If it burns, the smoke can kill you. Likewise if you eat it, but that is at least more voluntary.
It’s not entirely devoided of medicinal properties, atropine the major compound of belladonna is on the who list of essential medecine for bradycardia, neurotoxic poisoning and vagal discomfort
“Sarge,we can use the *beautiful* death to poison our enemy’s!” *points at belladona* “Wait..poison?” *continues chewing nightshade berry and dies a week later*
Out of all the things we take for granted on a daily basis, just remember that having scientific explanations for things has saved us from thinking the world is full of demonic powers
Honorable Mention: Datura Stramonium. Produces beautiful white flowers and it’s basically the America’s native equivalent. Doesn’t produce black berries tho
@@kowjackyow7585 impressive knowledge. You are definitely correct. I’ve never tried datura but I find the trip reports extremely interesting. By far some of the craziest drug stories you’ll ever hear come from datura. And yeah it’s actually pretty damn neurotoxic. Most drugs are pretty safe and well tolerated, but datura, especially in high doses, seems associated with short and long term cognitive disfunction, particularly with language. Longest I heard was a guy who had some effects on his ability to read for 4 months after a huge dose.
@@kowjackyow7585: That shit is deadly. It kills. 7 people died in my home town from smoking it and making a tea from the seeds. We call it Jemson weed and it grows in pastures. People think they are getting high (hallucinating) but in reality they are poisoning their bodies. That plant is in the night shade family.
I almost ate one of these when it randomly popped up in my yard and I thought it was a blueberry. Luckily I looked it up first. Who knew they just grow everywhere like whatever!
Dwale (Deadly Nightshade) does NOT have the deadliest berries. That record actually belongs to Lily of the Valley. It has killed far more children than Atropa Belladonna.
Fun horrifying fact! The Deadly Nightshade berry is unique in how it has a sweet taste. Most poisonous berries have a strong bitter taste, as if to say ‘don’t eat me’. The Deadly Nightshade is the only poisonous berry I know with a sweet taste. Also, it might be the poison that ‘cursed’ the original Snow White.
Poisonous plants have many kinds of poisons, and all kinds of tastes. You cannot tell the toxicity from the taste. And you shouldn't taste potentially poisonous plants, because that may poison you already.
So this is the nightlock berries in The Hunger Games. "Not these, Katniss. Never these. They're nightlock. You'll be dead before they reach your stomach."
It's so funny. I've already subscribed to you but deadly night shade opened eyes because I clicked not realizing. Was about to subscribe which made me realize. Watching. And planting 😂❤
You are lost and starving in a jungle and find some delicious Berries and start eating it like crazy... But suddenly a sad violin starts to play from nowhere.
My dad and I just had to pick a lot of these, or at least a relative of it, out of our garden yesterday. I told him all about it, so funs times! No, we didn't eat them, we have to uproot them to get them away from our tomatoes and beans. We were also wearing gloves.
Fun fact, the nightshade somehow found it's way to South Africa and here it is not toxic, we call it "Masoba" and we make a lovely purple jam from the berries.
Atropine is used to treat Bradycardia…I was a medic and emergency/trauma nurse…we pushed a lot of Atropine…lots of lives have been saved by this little black berry too…well, a synthetic version of its alkaloid…
Such a missed opportunity with the dilated pupils script! A unique look? I reckon Cleopatra looked like she just came off the dancefloor at Studio 54 😂😂
Deadly Nightshade is aka Belladonna. It's prescribed as little pills and used in hospitals - yes, in the ER and before/after surgery - to help with pain, muscle relaxation, and sleep. It's used today in modern pharmaceuticals.
I knew a guy in the army who ate some to get high. First thing he said when he got out of the hospital three days later was; “Hey man, I know where to get more!”.
Sorry for the scare everyone, but Andres is alive and well. Just a little joke between friends.
I’m alive!
Phew.
Got me worried . I like this channel a lot
I thought that was Danielle eating the fruit at the end.
@@nathanwilliams3233 wait then what was she eating?
“That’s twice this month you’ve slipped deadly nightshade into my tea and run off.”
“Three times.”
She gets restless sometimes.. she can't help it.
Sally, had every right to do what she did! 💝💀🎃🎄👻
"Wormwart my favorite!... And Frog's Breath?"
"What? I thought you liked Frog's Breath?"
"Nothing is more suspicious than Frog's Breath. Until you taste it, I'm not eating a spoonful."
What is this from?
@@JJ-mc5vn The Nightmare before Christmas.
I drank a tea brewed out of the leaves. Didn't know much about it at the time and figured it was just a crazy drug. That it was, I was talking to people who weren't there and kept seeing bugs crawling on my skin. Worst thing I've ever done.
And that children is called a deliriant, let's avoid those because you aren't oriented x 3 (person, place, time) and that can be quite dangerous (look up stories on datura)- much safer and much more fun to stick to hallucinogens! And if you don't know the difference, keep walking - neither is for you! Cheers
ouch
Sounds fun to me
I ate 2 berries. First it felt like a weed trip, i was laughing but 30 minutes in everything started spinning, i had to sit down. My breathing got louder and my heart started pounding. I sit like that for 30 minutes and it got worse and worse. It then reached its peak, my body tensed and i threw up so much. I felt much better afterwards. Friends said its like datura but its not, this is garbage, datura gives a better "high"
@NoCap Productions why the heck would you eat two berrys in the first place 💀
Like when Ralph Wiggum ate the random berries when all the kids got stranded on that island
"It tastes like burning"
ha ha im in danger..
Go banana!
My cats breath smells like cat food!
That’s where I saw the Leprechaun. He tells me to burn things.
Tomacco tastes like Grandma
I used to pick nightshade berries all the time, squish the berries, and rub the juice on my lips as a kid. Never knew what it was until my neighbor went white as a sheet and took them from me. Haha oopsies.
Deadly lipstick!
Stupid neighbor .. should've let you eat them
If you were in North America, you were most likely fine. The native nightshade loses toxicity as the berries ripen.
Fully ripe is actually perfectly safe to eat.
@@originaljiggy interesting! I would definitely do more than a bit of research before testing this hypothesis firsthand!
It might be black nightshade a plant similar or to the same species
“Found those by the creek, did you?”
“Mm-hmm.”
“They’re nightshade berries.”
“Mmm.”
“They’re poisonous.”
*abruptly stops eating and spits the berries out*
(it’s a “Brave” reference)
Yeah It is. Darn you beat me to it,
Already thought it sounded familiar! Nice
Also people thought tomato was poison because it is part of the same group as deadly nightshade, thankfully they cleared that up
@@darrenswails chillis allsow belong to the same genus, as well as potatos
@@jelenahegser445 aubergine too
Nowadays, the compound “Atropin“ from the berry’s scientific name “Atropa belladonna” is still used in ophthalmology for the exact function it had for the vain women of yore. But rather than to look pretty, ophthalmologists use it because they need a dilated pupil so they can look inside the eye better for diagnostic purposes
Yeah exactly. Atropine is derived from it. It's a potent anticholinergic, and it's pretty vastly used. I don't know why these people are saying it's not used nowadays.
@@evangrey2523 They probably just read wikipedia and honestly that's all it's written there. For some reason the wiki page has nothing about the usage of atropine and scopolamine that it contains, but if they did a thorough research they could've found that it's actually widely used. We mostly use atropine for bradycardia.
Atropine is also used as an antidote to opium and chloroform poisoning….
I went to the optometrist the other day and had my pupils dilated. Such an odd feeling.
I've had it used, it's horrible. Makes your vision all blurry until the effects wear off
I hope we can talk about more deadly/poisonous plants, I find then really interesting, mostly things like mushrooms, but other things like White Snake Root are also cool!
Oo! Oo! The Amanita family of mushrooms is fascinating! Fly agaric, the red and white fairy mushroom, is part of the Amanita family, and is super toxic! 🍄
@@Evergreen_Trees_are_cool Yes yes yes!!! These popped up in abundance in my childhood yard last year for the first time ever.
There's also a lot of fox glove, which if I remember correctly is also toxic.
Amanita sp. Of mushrooms are generally highly toxic. Several are quite deadly. A series on them would be fun.
Ageratina altissima, the white snakeroot. Looks like a boneset plant. Fun fact, it is blamed for the death of Abraham Lincoln's mother. Dairy livestock can pass the toxins into milk after eating the foliage. It was a serious issue in America, one thing that led to FDA/USDA type regulations and inspection.
@@Sarnandhun Mhm, Foxglove is also toxic. Was researching plants one time and it popped up
Why do all the deadly dangerous things have such a cool Aesthetic?
Just look at the way it's leaves are arranged around the berries. It's just gorgeous.
Those aren't leaves...it's an extension of the stem
I like how the color of the berries screams deadly
@@dundee6402 hey there fellow Björk fan
@@lizxu322they are sepals
Since you’re looking at deadly plants, you should talk about Oleander! I never expected it to be as deadly as it is considering you see it everywhere in tropical areas. And it’s pretty too. But it’s SUPER toxic, like even a rain puddle that forms under it could be toxic
Another suggestion would be wolfsbane!
are you talking about the manchineel tree or something else entirely?
@@mirroredchaos something else
@@sokol7215 oh
@@sayzar9474 Foxglove is one that was common in my hometown and one time a pair of tourists mistook it for something else and died after making tea from the leaves.
“I have a deadly nightshade
So twisted does it grow-
with berries black as midnight
And a skull as white as snow
The vicar’s cocky young son
Came to drink my tea
He touched me without asking
now he’s buried ‘neath a tree”
- traditional Girls Skipping Rhyme from Chokely in Wynterset
Yes love it. Problem, meet solution.
I read that a long time ago
My favourite detail is that they are a distant relative of Tamatos.
Yes, and potatoes and eggplants and most peppers.
And tobacco
@@reregfys7169 Potatoes are a member of Solanaceae which is the nightshade family.
All those are classified as "Nachtschattengewächse" here in Germany, "Nachtschatten" literarily translating to nightshade. So yep, would probably make sense they're related in some way or another. And both potatoes and tomatoes are producing toxins as well. Yeah well, and we all should know by now that tobacco isn't the most healthy plant to consume, I guess 😅
Maybe that explains my long held aversion to tomatoes and peppers. I've always hated them. Maybe it's a coincidence? Or perhaps it's an evolutionary or genetic trait that I had somehow inherited. Perhaps something inside me would simply be saying "NO!" if I tried to bring a tomato or pepper near my mouth. Or maybe I just don't like the taste. I even refuse ketchup!
Fun fact! The Atropa in the name comes from Atropos, one of the 3 Fates. Specifically, the one who cuts the thread, thus ending the persom's life
yes! even the name has witchcraft in it.
@@atis9061 That's not witchcraft, that's basic Greek mythology. Sure, modern day Wiccans often have no issues praying to Greek gods in general and are often fans of mythology in general, but I don't think it's the same.
@@amberkat8147 you don’t think? Or are you sure? Because you seem to be an authority, & an authority usually doesn’t question themselves.
@@atis9061 witchcraft is definitely not the same as greek mythology.
@@cipreste no shit Sherlock. And you are definitely not a teacher especially my teacher
I had a small plant growing in the dog kennel that I didn’t notice, and a litter of puppies chewed on the leaves… No berries, didn’t even swallow any of the pieces of the leaves they just chewed on it… I nearly lost a whole litter of puppies.
The dilated pupil thing was more than looking unique. Someone back then noticed that human pupils dilate as an arousal response. The eyedrops were intended to make the user look more receptive and, hopefully, more attractive thereby.
Beat me to it !
Also dilate from exhaustion.
You mention that bees sometimes make toxic honey from belladonna nectar - I think an entire episode on the "Mad Honey" made from toxic plants like rhododendrons would be really interesting!
This is honestly by FAR my favorite UA-cam channel! Your stuff is always of such high quality and both you and Danielle are always so enjoyable to watch!
Dude, I had tons of these plants in my backyard growing up as a kid. My mom just thought they were wild plants from the woods behind us. I never ate any of the berries, but I used to smash them up with my hands. I also got sick a lot growing up, could that be the reason?
Yep!
You can still absorb some chemicals through your skin!
Congrats for somehow surviving childhood! :P
A reminder to never abuse mother nature
He used to call me DN
That stood for Deadly Nightshade
'Cause I was filled with poison
But blessed with beauty and rage
Jim told me that
He hit me and it felt like a kiss
Jim brought me back
Reminded me of when we were kids
Literally the only reason I clicked on this
looking for you
lanaaaaa
Me thinks I'm in love
This plant may be poisonous, but modern chemistry and biochemistry has also been able to extract lifesaving drugs from it. Belladonna extract is used to dilate pupils for eye exams and other alkaloids from the plant are used as blood vessel dilators to keep heart attack, stroke, and embolism patients alive while doctors try to find the affected blood vessels with camera catheters.
It's amazing what nature provides.
@@TheFos88 Nuclear fusion is also a force of nature as it is what powers the stars, and we are just starting to learn how to initiate and control it's output artificially. Once we fully master it, all of the nearby planets and asteroids will be opened up to us too.
Let’s have a moment of silence for whoever sacrificed their life to determine the sweetness of this fruit. (2:27)
He is probably fine. As she said, you can eat a handful.
I wonder how exactly they found out that two berries can kill a child (2:14). How many children were used to test that one berry is save and two is too much?
@@bultvidxxxix9973 I think they just calculate the lethal amount of these alkaloids per kilogram/pound, and then they can calculate how much can kill a child, keeping in mind that children are sometimes more sensitive to substances.
As a kid I chewed on one and spat it out when it made my mouth dry, I can confirm they are sweet.
If this is like certain super poisonous berry in Germany, people have eaten few of them by accident, gotten to the hospital and survived. The information about the sweetness was gained by study of the survivors vomit to determine the plant, and interviewing the survivors about the taste.
@@bultvidxxxix9973 That kind of information isn't usually found by intentional scientific testing but rather in the aftermath of accidents where people have unknowingly consumed a toxic substance and are interviewed/studied afterwards.
It is possible to roughly determine the lethal dose of such toxins without testing but exact values are almost impossible to predict because of the huge number of variables involved in the chemistry of the human body. Some people could die after eating a single berry and others could survive eating several.
Medical science is mostly about figuring out the most consistent result for the majority of cases rather than cataloging the plethora of circumstances behind every individual case. It just isn't practical to do so even if it were possible in the first place.
Belladonna does have medical value. The drops you mentioned are still used by optometrists to dilate the eyes and it’s also used to make Scopolamine, which is a prescription anti-nausea patch. The patch is placed behind the ear and is typically used by travelers to prevent motion sickness.
It's also a hallucinogen so fun
You've poisoned me for the last time, you wretched girl! That's twice this month you've slipped deadly Nightshade in my tea and runn offf.
3 times
You're mine, you know! I made you with my own hands.
Beautiful reference my dude.
I THOUGHT YOU LOVED FROGS BREATH?!
According to family lore my Great Great Aunt Rhetta was a hat maker and had asthma she said was a result of inhaling the dust from cutting velvet and wool for hats. She used Dr. Schiffmann’s Powder as a bronchial asthmador which contained belladonna as one of its active ingredients. She would place the powder in a tin and light it on fire, breathing in the the pale green smoke. Afterwards she would read tea leaves for the young cousins leading them to think she was a witch.
What about an episode on plants that move, and what causes that movement? Like how sunflowers follow the sun, venus flytrap and other carnivorous plants, Mimosa and Maranta for example. Oh, and exploding fruits, like Impatiens and exploding cucumber!
Ooh, I think they usually move by increasing the pressure of their fluids?
Yes, that would be hella rad to see.
I want to see an episode about moving plants too!
You know...this sort of thing has already been covered in other videos by other people.
Just need to search for it.
@@TheMurlocKeeper yes, but then again, most of the videos by animalogic have been covered by other UA-cam channels, ya just need to search for them
"the berries are slightly sweet but if you eat more than a handful you might be in terrible"
...... Slowly puts a single berry in mouth while looking around to see if anyone is watching
1:42 "This plant is native to Eurasia, but it's spread to Africa and North America"
Me at South America: "Phew..."
South America has one that starts with B that has the same poison at about 5x the concentration
@@666summerz if by prepare you mean extract isolate measure and dilute and possibly weaponize then absolutely but out of all the the plants in the world it's more like uranium rather than meteorite on the sacred scale
Someone mentioned that this plant is used to make atropine (and I looked it up and it does!). This is a lifesaving drug so important that we use it as an ACLS (advanced cardiovascular life support) medication for bradycardia (slow heart rate) and an antidote for organophosphate poisonings (pesticides and sarin gas that causes you to vomit and diarrhea to death). Literally a life saving medication! That would have been really cool to include in the video, maybe make a second video? Also it would be cool to make videos about other plants that have been turned into modern medicines. Glad to hear Danielle and Andres are alright! Scared me for a minute!!! 😂
RIP, Andres. You were instrumental to the Animal Logic team!
He's alive and well!
@@animalogic 😂🤣😅 i was like fuuuuu...I hope that’s a joke 😅😅😅. An excellent one, btw 😂
@@animalogic In the future, I'd recommend adding a disclaimer to the video itself immediately below the joke itself. Just to prevent people who are less cynical or don't read the comments from freaking out.
@@animalogic can I use Belladonna as a recreational hallucinogen?
@@gordonramsay3034 I would not do that if I were you tripping on stuff that is poisonous is not safe at all man I've so many stories of people trying to go that route and it always ends very badly
You missed an important factoid. The fruit is designed to feed birds to whom it is non toxic and who deposit the seeds everywhere with a little fertiliser donation.
Your hoya!! I love this series so much, but I got super excited for you when I saw your hoya compacta in the background is about to bloom. Your living wall is so amazing and I admire it everytime you post.
My grand father used to grow this in a pot kept in a bird cage which said " POISON DO NOT TOUCH " the bees loved it .... Great Vid .
I was about to say "Please don't tell us Andres dies because of those wild berries.", fortunately, he is still alive.
There are several varieties of Nightshade around the world, and most aren't toxic.
It isn't always easy to distinguish them however.
But others are a great snack.
Now anime eyes are a possibility with the right amount of deadly nightshade eye drops 👁👄👁
There is nothing MOE can't ruin.
Well if you want to be blind as well, then go for it, sure
They have better dilation eyedrops these days.
I think they still use a very dilute amount of belladonna for some eye exams. My eyes were very sensitive to light for a day or so. (I was with my parents and am a male anyways, so I didn't get any comments along the lines of "you look like you're in love.". The cosmetic use is because our pupils dilate slightly when we are extremely interested in something/someone [& of course when it is dark and we need to collect more light to form an image], so belladonna became a way to exaggerate that and look "romantic.")
The drops used are atropine one of the 3 main active components of nightshade
One of the places my husband and I lived, in Auckland, New Zealand, had a variety of deadly nightshade with these beautiful little white flowers and glossy purple-black berries. We didn't know what it was, until, at my husband's behest, his father, who was a professional landscaper, came over to clean up the property. It was such a pretty-looking plant, it was a shame it had to go, but, well... an excellent example, perhaps, of something covered by the legal term "attractive nuisance"...
He's smarter than my friend's aunt. They have little dogs they love, and I pointed out that those plants they had were poisonous. (Hydrangeas, I think.) So we pulled them out and bought new ones. That evening her spouse came home from work and didn't like the new plants. Chose new ones to replace them and . . . replaced them with the SAME DANG THING! Still annoys me that her aunt gives way to her spouse without a second thought or word about everything even when it doesn't make any sense. (They are both women, but hate it when people use the term wife for some reason. So spouse it is.)
@@amberkat8147same as the poisonous ones or the new ones?
I'm happy to see you talk about my favorite plant!
Why hello fellow witch i too like this plant
@@besartmaroca198 Hello fellow witch!
That's something an imposter would say
I literally use the scientific name as my instagram name
@@jc_moitea same thing here
"That's nightlock Peeta! you'll be dead in a minute!"
Poor FoxFace.
AhHaaaaa.
Hope we talk about Wolfs bane eventually! We can talk about werewolves and hunters and such!!😁🐺
Hi, Tasha The Amazonian
The Ancient Goddess Of War in Pre Roman Society is known as Bellona. Her Priestesses would consume this plant for battle rituals (Men who served this Goddess did so as well) and The Deadly Nightshade was thus named after Her.
Thing is I would definitely eat that if I didn't know it was toxic
As a general rule, one shouldn’t eat anything that you don’t know to be edible. Most things won’t kill you, but many will make you wish they had.
@@evilsharkey8954 And if I can see that it is in the nightshade family, I am especially cautious!
I would eat it because it is toxic
I know what you mean, they look quite appetizing
I ate one a long time ago
This is like a special plant that you'd be able to grow in the Sims after reaching level 9 Gardening Skill and completing a special quest.
Excuse me...what?? Which one? Sims 3 or 4?
Bet you can't do anything cool with it though, and make a "tea" and give it to other sims to off them. :P
I really miss the Cow Plant, and that you could drink it's "milk" (once it ate another sim) essence in order to stave off death by a few more days.
It was fucked up, but awesome!
I really love floralogic. Each new video is a treat to me as a plant lover.
It would nice if you guy make a video about invasive plant species around the world.
That's an awesome idea
Imagine sneaking this into a bowl of berries and keep it in the office fridge for that one person who always steals others food.
The transition at the end 😂😂😂
Floralogic needs its own channel and more episodes. Great shows as always.
Thank you so much for making this video. I live in South Florida and wild deadly nightshade plants grow fairly commonly in yards around here. I tried to show my family the plant and tell them its dangerous but they think I'm exaggerating. Now I can show them this. :)
Also remind them not to plant oleander (Nerium oleander, overplanted throughout the state). If it burns, the smoke can kill you. Likewise if you eat it, but that is at least more voluntary.
@@Erewhon2024 thanks for the info I'll let them know
Im so tempted to do a beekeeping and plant these close to the beehives so i can have a poisonous honey to give to my enemies
The plant that you showed in 4:22 is Solanum nigrum which are edible and its leaves and berries are used in Asian cuisines.
It’s not entirely devoided of medicinal properties, atropine the major compound of belladonna is on the who list of essential medecine for bradycardia, neurotoxic poisoning and vagal discomfort
Isn't it what Benadryl is based on synthetically as well? I may have it mistaken with Datura.
The t-shirt shade is on top! :)
The berry with it's petals looks like a pentagram
"That's twice this month you've slipped deadly nightshade into my tea and run off!"
Sally
Three times!
“Sarge,we can use the *beautiful* death to poison our enemy’s!” *points at belladona*
“Wait..poison?” *continues chewing nightshade berry and dies a week later*
Out of all the things we take for granted on a daily basis, just remember that having scientific explanations for things has saved us from thinking the world is full of demonic powers
Like the eye drops you get when you have an eye test and have to wear sunglasses all day after
Honorable Mention: Datura Stramonium. Produces beautiful white flowers and it’s basically the America’s native equivalent. Doesn’t produce black berries tho
@@kowjackyow7585 impressive knowledge. You are definitely correct. I’ve never tried datura but I find the trip reports extremely interesting. By far some of the craziest drug stories you’ll ever hear come from datura. And yeah it’s actually pretty damn neurotoxic. Most drugs are pretty safe and well tolerated, but datura, especially in high doses, seems associated with short and long term cognitive disfunction, particularly with language. Longest I heard was a guy who had some effects on his ability to read for 4 months after a huge dose.
@@kowjackyow7585: That shit is deadly. It kills. 7 people died in my home town from smoking it and making a tea from the seeds. We call it Jemson weed and it grows in pastures. People think they are getting high (hallucinating) but in reality they are poisoning their bodies. That plant is in the night shade family.
@@kowjackyow7585 like benadryl
@@max3eey yep, it's a synthesized form of Datura.
Edit: no
@@TheFos88 no
I love the nightshade family. Might be a tasty treat, might be a deadly poison, might be a psychedelic hell trip.
or a plain potato
I never miss floralogic videos!
3:29 Pablo Escobar enters the room smiling sardonically.
A Macbeth AND an I Claudius reference in the same episode?! Cool.
What is this, a crossover episode???
"At least I hope those were blackberries, I ate two handfulls of them."
IN MEMORIAM
I almost ate one of these when it randomly popped up in my yard and I thought it was a blueberry. Luckily I looked it up first. Who knew they just grow everywhere like whatever!
Glad you looked it up!
Cos blueberries don't grow or look ANYTHING like that!
randomly huh? BIRDS ARE THE PRIMARY SEED DISPERSERS OF THIS GROUP, tortoises, iguana, fox, opossum, raccoon some as well
I’m doing my research on this plant because a doctor suggested smashing one of these berries and using that berry juice on cold sores.
Cool shirt Tasha.
Love your shirt I just found the channel def subscribed😍
FLORALOGIC MY BELOVED ✨❤️💐 I LOVE THIS SERIES
Death is life's finish line, so really this plant is something like a Mario power-up to help you get there quicker.
Fly Agaric would be really interesting, would love to learn of the Viking Shroom
I love the tune Bella Donna by Legendary Pink Dots.
Thanks for all your handy plant knowledge. I love your channel.
Can you talk about Rhododendron where Nepal honey comes from.
There is another Rhododendron from the Caucasus whose honey made it into tales of insanity in Greek mythology.
The very end of the video showing two people eating berries and then the "in memory of ...77-2020" was really scalating things quickly for a moment
“He used to call me DN
Which stood for deadly nightshade.
Cause I was filled with poison,
But blessed with beauty and rage.”
-Lana del Rey
I wanna eat a bucket full of these berries.
I like this topic…💙The deadly nightshade looks edible!🤔
Thank you for sharing this interesting video~🤗👍✨
🔆AniFam〽️
Imagine your prince drinking witches brew in your castle and all the sudden the heads of your guards turn into fish heads...
It was also one of many plants people in the 80s used to get high... Not that I know anything about that.. 😏😉😏
interesting 🤔
LOL I remember a few people from HS that had interesting stramonium datura experiences.
@@howiedewin3688 Very interesting please tell me more lol
Dwale (Deadly Nightshade) does
NOT have the deadliest berries. That record actually belongs to Lily of the Valley. It has killed far more children than Atropa Belladonna.
Got a whole patch In a Part of my woodland homestead In the UK...a beautiful plant...Great channel..very informative and live that t shirt.
Fun horrifying fact! The Deadly Nightshade berry is unique in how it has a sweet taste. Most poisonous berries have a strong bitter taste, as if to say ‘don’t eat me’. The Deadly Nightshade is the only poisonous berry I know with a sweet taste.
Also, it might be the poison that ‘cursed’ the original Snow White.
Poisonous plants have many kinds of poisons, and all kinds of tastes. You cannot tell the toxicity from the taste. And you shouldn't taste potentially poisonous plants, because that may poison you already.
“Stay away from this plant”
Me: planted 10 in my room
So this is the nightlock berries in The Hunger Games. "Not these, Katniss. Never these. They're nightlock. You'll be dead before they reach your stomach."
My biology teacher once casually told us how he was eating deadly nightshade berries for an experiment
It's so funny. I've already subscribed to you but deadly night shade opened eyes because I clicked not realizing. Was about to subscribe which made me realize. Watching. And planting 😂❤
You are lost and starving in a jungle and find some delicious Berries and start eating it like crazy... But suddenly a sad violin starts to play from nowhere.
I would love to see an episode on both types of Wormwood. Since you can still safely make 'The Green Fairy' aka Absinthe from the southern variety.
"He used to call me DN, that stood for Deadly Nightshade"
I was looking for this comment
"Hmm.. what can i do to improve my berries so my seeds get spread better? Oh, yeah! I'll stuff a googleplex of poison molecules in it! yay!"
My dad and I just had to pick a lot of these, or at least a relative of it, out of our garden yesterday. I told him all about it, so funs times! No, we didn't eat them, we have to uproot them to get them away from our tomatoes and beans. We were also wearing gloves.
As another Amazon woman, I subbed within 30 seconds of the video. A very high five!
Fun fact, the nightshade somehow found it's way to South Africa and here it is not toxic, we call it "Masoba" and we make a lovely purple jam from the berries.
The presentation in this series is amazing, I loved the style of the intro so much.
Atropine is used to treat Bradycardia…I was a medic and emergency/trauma nurse…we pushed a lot of Atropine…lots of lives have been saved by this little black berry too…well, a synthetic version of its alkaloid…
Such a missed opportunity with the dilated pupils script! A unique look? I reckon Cleopatra looked like she just came off the dancefloor at Studio 54 😂😂
I have a nightshade and now I'm terrified 😰
At 4:24 the berries appear to be those of Solanum Nigrum and not the Belladonna ! Solanum Nigrum is edible when ripe :)
You don't have to stay away from nightshade plants you geniuses you can just stand there and admire their beauty!
Deadly Nightshade is aka Belladonna. It's prescribed as little pills and used in hospitals - yes, in the ER and before/after surgery - to help with pain, muscle relaxation, and sleep. It's used today in modern pharmaceuticals.
I knew a guy in the army who ate some to get high. First thing he said when he got out of the hospital three days later was; “Hey man, I know where to get more!”.
Ate a nightshade on “WEDNESDAY” Soon later called it nightshade poisoning!