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Hyoscyamus — known as the henbanes — is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae.It comprises 31 species, [2] all of which are toxic. It, along with other genera in the same family, is a source of the drug hyoscyamine (daturine).
Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger, also black henbane and stinking nightshade) is a poisonous plant belonging to tribe Hyoscyameae of the nightshade family Solanaceae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Henbane is native to temperate Europe and Siberia , and naturalised in Great Britain and Ireland .
Hyoscyamus aureus, the golden henbane or yellow henbane, [1] is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Iraq. [2]
Hyoscyameae is an Old World tribe of the subfamily Solanoideae of the flowering plant family Solanaceae. It comprises seven genera: Anisodus, Atropa, Atropanthe, Hyoscyamus, Physochlaina, Przewalskia and Scopolia. [1] The genera Atropanthe and Przewalskia are monotypic, the first being endemic to China and the second to Tibet.
Hyoscyamine (also known as daturine or duboisine) is a naturally occurring tropane alkaloid and plant toxin. It is a secondary metabolite found in certain plants of the family Solanaceae, including henbane, mandrake, angel's trumpets, jimsonweed, the sorcerers' tree, and Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade).
The wild plants are used in traditional local medicine. It is sometimes cultivated in countries such as Egypt, Pakistan and India for its medicinal alkaloids, which may be exported to countries such as Germany. [1] Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer (1852–1903) successfully cultivated Hyoscyamus muticus to obtain the alkaloid hyoscyamine. [2]
Hyoscyamus albus, the white henbane [1] or yellow henbane, is a plant in the family of Solanaceae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is native to Southern Europe , North Africa , West Asia and Macaronesia . [ 5 ]
Plants naturally containing scopolamine such as Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade), Brugmansia (angels trumpet), Datura (Jimson weed), Hyoscyamus niger, Mandragora officinarum, Scopolia carniolica, Latua and Duboisia myoporoides have been known about and used for various purposes in both the New and Old Worlds since ancient times.
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