Atropa belladonna
Deadly Night Shade
Bushy green with tiny green/black berries look like mini tomatoes. White and sometimes pinkish flowers. Poisonous.
Contributed by @Rox1968
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Partial shade
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Very little water
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Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)
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Moist and free draining
Common name
Deadly Night Shade
Latin name
Atropa belladonna
type
Annual
family
Solanaceae
ph
5.0 - 8.5 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Partial shade
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Frost
Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)
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Soil
Moist and free draining
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Water
Very little water
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
1.00 M
1.50 M
Atropa belladonna
Bushy green with tiny green/black berries look like mini tomatoes. White and sometimes pinkish flowers. Poisonous.
Planting Outdoors
From Early Spring TO Late Spring
Plant out container grown specimens into a moist but free draining site.
Flowering Season
From Early Summer TO Late Summer
White and sometimes pinkish flowers.
Propagation by seed
From Early Spring TO Late Spring
Plant seed on compost and cover lightly.
Propagation by cuttings
From Mid Spring TO Early Summer
Take soft wood cuttings in spring to early summer. Cleanly cut up to a 10cm long stems, remove lower leaves and pinch the tip out, dip the stem into rooting hormone, fill a container/pot with suitable compost, make holes around the edge of it and plant the cuttings, water in well, cover with a polythene bag and place somewhere warm, lake the bag off twice a week to air the cuttings. Keep the cuttings moist until well rooted.Harden off when well rooted and pot on into individual pots increasing the airing to let the leaves to develop. Remove rotten, dying or dead cuttings regularly.
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