Scopolia is a genus of four species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae, native to Europe and Asia. The genus is named after Giovanni Scopoli (1723–88), a Tyrolean naturalist.
The genus has a disjunct distribution, with two recognised species in Central to Eastern Europe, (including the Caucasus), and two species in East Asia.
The two European species are:
Scopolia carniolica Jacq. of Slovenia, Austria and the Carpathian Mountains
Scopolia caucasica Kolesn. ex Kreyer of the Caucasus
and the two Asiatic species are:
Scopolia lutescens Y.N. Lee of Korea
Scopolia japonica Maxim. of Japan
The four species in the equally medicinal genus Anisodus
have in the past been placed in the genus Scopolia, as has the monotypic genus Atropanthe with its single species Atropanthe sinensis Pascher.[1]
Scopolia carniolica - the longest-known species and the one with the westernmost distribution - is a creeping perennial plant, with light green leaves and dull reddish-purple flowers (cream in the attractive and more ornamental variety hladnikiana, sometimes cultivated as a decorative plant). Scopolia's extract (which contains a form of the alkaloid scopolamine) is used in at least one commercial stomach remedy (Inosea, produced by Sato Pharmaceutical). The extract is an anti-spasmodic in low doses and may be used to relax smooth muscle tissue or prevent motion-sickness-induced nausea; in higher doses, it is a poison having hallucinogenic and memory-inhibiting effects.
Other alkaloids found in Scopolia carniolica include cuscohygrine, hyoscyamine, and atroscine.
The coumarin phenylpropanoids umbelliferone and scopoletin have been isolated from the roots of Scopolia japonica.
Scopolia is a genus of four species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae, native to Europe and Asia. The genus is named after Giovanni Scopoli...
Scopolia carniolica, the European scopolia or henbane bell, is a poisonous plant belonging to the family Solanaceae. It has dark violet flowers on long...
Scopolia japonica, also Japanese belladonna or Korean scopolia, is a flowering plant species in the genus Scopolia - one of the eight genera in tribe Hyoscyameae...
Hyoscyamine (also known as daturine or duboisine) is a naturally occurring tropane alkaloid and plant toxin. It is a secondary metabolite found in certain...
included belladonna, angel's trumpets, jimsonweed, black henbane, European scopolia or autumn mandrake, which contain alkaloids (atropine and scopolamine,...
The name "scopolamine" is derived from one type of nightshade known as Scopolia, while the name "hyoscine" is derived from another type known as Hyoscyamus...
Mandragora root, Senecio mikanioides (Delairea odorata), Scopolia carniolica, and Scopolia lurida. Scopine can be prepared by the hydrolysis of scopolamine...
coumarin found in the root of plants in the genus Scopolia such as Scopolia carniolica and Scopolia japonica, in chicory, in Artemisia scoparia, in the...
accepted Euro-Asiatic species Przewalskia Maxim., 2 species from China Scopolia Jacq., disjunct distribution with two European species and two from East...
lesser known plant sources of scopolamine and related tropanes include Scopolia carniolica endemic to Europe, Latua endemic to southern Chile, Solandra...
Archihyoscyamus, Atropa, Atropanthe, Hyoscyamus, Physochlaina, Przewalskia and Scopolia. The genera Archihyoscyamus, Atropanthe and Przewalskia are monotypic,...
Scopoli and showed great interest in his work. He named a solanaceous genus, Scopolia, the source of scopolamine, after him, but because of the great distance...
nightshade ingredients included the famous mandrake (Mandragora officinarum), Scopolia carniolica and Datura stramonium, the thornapple. The alkaloids atropine...
tree wasp, Europe and Asia Scopolia, a genus of plants, and the alkaloid scopolamine isolated from such plants Scopolia, a genus of moths Cerambyx scopolii...
Scopolamine, a toxic, deliriant alkaloid present in (and named after) Scopolia carniolica and also present in Mandragora, Hyoscyamus and other Solanaceae...
species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae. Horvat, B. (1993). "Aquatic Empididae fauna (Diptera) in Bosnia and Herzegovina". Scopolia. 28: 1–25....
(sanguinarine has an LD50 of only 18 mg per kg body weight). Scopolia carniolica European scopolia, henbane bell Solanaceae Its toxicity derives from its high...
(1990). "Preliminary notes on Heteroptera of the Nebrodi mountains" (PDF). Scopolia, Journal of the Slovenian Museum of Natural History. Supplement 1 (between...
in plants of the family Solanaceae - notably Anisodus tanguticus (syn. Scopolia tangutica. Anisodine acts as a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist...
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