I just wondered... · 7:59pm Jan 3rd, 2015
I skimmed through my new Schmeil-Fitschen (a very accurate and recommandable German plant identification book) and came across the deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna in Latin.
It is called like that because in ancient times, women gave a drop of belladonna juice into their eye to make the pupil widen, caused by the atropin in the juice. Today, solutions of atropin are used for eye examinations.
Would belladonna (Latin for 'beautiful woman') aka deadly nightshade be called bellaequa (Latin for 'beautiful mare') in Equestria?
Hmm, I think so.
It would make sense. Hmmm... Now im wondering what Zecora would be using it for O.O