Gold Vermeil Wine Colored REAL Preserved Deadly Nightshade Flower Earrings w/ Swarovski Crystals

15 carat Gold vermeil wine colored fantasy painted REAL preserved deadly nightshade flower drop earrings with burgundy Swarovski crystals and faceted gold vermeil bead accents. The only metallic elements are the wire and beads. The petals and the sepal leaves have been meticulously preserved, painted, and sealed, so everything you are seeing is the wicked flower itself. This process also ensures that the flower is safe to wear and handle. Due to the unique aspects inherent to each flower earrings will not be exactly identical.

Deadly nightshade, or belladonna, is a fabulously and famously poisonous plant. Every aspect of it, the stems, roots, leaves, dainty flowers, and delectable looking berries contain tropane alkaloids, which affect the central nervous system. Even the genus name of the plant, atropa, comes from the final Fate in Classical mythology. Atropos is the crone who cuts the threads of life and thus determines when each of us will die. The name belladonna comes from the Italian words for beautiful lady. 16th century women would put drops of nightshade in their eyes to dilate pupils for beauty's sake.