Belladonna

Belladonna, or wolfsbane was a type of poisonous herb

Description
Being a type of flowering plant, belladonnas produced delicate purple flowers.

Abilities
Belladonna were most famous for their ability to cure lycanthropy. However, they were also toxic - anyone eating them was likely to find themselves weakened physically. Consumption of their flowers was capable of inducing state of death-like sleep.

Habitats
Belladonna was known to grown in both the Prime Material plane and the Feywild.

Uses
If a victim bitten by a lycanthrope ate a sprig of belladonna within an hour of the bite, he or she had a chance of not contracting the disease. The belladonna, however, had to be relatively fresh, not picked any later than a week ago.

Though consumption of belladonna worked equally as well for giants and giant-kin infected with lycanthropy, they needed to consume much larger amounts than the smaller humanoid races.

Belladonna was used as a material component for a variety of charms, potions, and spells. Because of this they were frequently harvested by hags and witches. One spell known to require belladonna was protection from poison. It was also used in gas bombs invented by the lycanthrope-hunting organization known as the Silver Stake.

Locations
Belladonna was known to grow on this small, Isle of Balduran, in the Trackless Sea

Appearances

 * Video Games
 * Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast • Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear • Neverwinter Nights • Neverwinter Nights: Wyvern Crown of Cormyr • Neverwinter