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Atropa belladonna L. (Deadly Nightshade)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Atropa belladonna Plant 4 September 1977 East Sussex England 1
Atropa belladonna Plant 29 May 1976 East Sussex England 3
Atropa belladonna In flower 1 June 1969 East Norfolk England 1

Suggested Literature

Atropa belladonna may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Atropa belladonna:

is associate of fruitbody Lepiota fuscovinacea - a dapperling (Agaricales: Agaricaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [esp calcareous soil]
leaf leaf is mined by larva Liriomyza bryoniae - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Spencer, K.A., 1972 [short irregular linear mine]
Photos leaf leaf is grazed by imago Epitrix atropae - Belladonna Flea Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
Photos leaf leaf is grazed by larva Epitrix atropae - Belladonna Flea Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by fruitbody Sistotremastrum suecicum - a basidiomycete fungus (Polyporales: Sistotremataceae) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem stem is parasitised by immersed perithecium Diaporthe chailletii - a valsoid pyrenomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [in broadly effused blackened areas]

Atropa belladonna may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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