Noticed this lovely weed in my backyard. Turns out it's poisonous when eaten! So I may need to rip it out before too many more berries appear, or try to teach the dogs not to eat them till they're ripe, and not to eat the leaves (HA). Dang. I really like the flowers.
PP - converted from RAW, flipped it upside down (I was holding the vine in the air to take the picture), cropped, levels, reduced noise, increased saturation, USM, added border, resized, sharpened.
there was a medicine puzzler in the NYTimes a few months ago, turns out the woman had been working in her garden, then made a salad, I don't recall all the details, but she inadvertantly ingested some of this plant, and nearly died...it took some time before they were able to figure it out. yikes~get rid of it!! Save this picture it's much safer :)
So that's what they're called! Do these get bright red berries in the Fall? I've been trying to figure out what these are. Love this take, it's very clear.
Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade. Called belladonna because ladies used to place drops into their eyes in order to dilate their pupils, thereby looking sad-eyed and lovely. The active ingredient is atropine and it is in large doses poisonous if swallowed.
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