Modern dilating drops are just synthetic cousins of their ancestor atropine, an extract of Atropa belladonna (also known as deadly nightshade). (scientificamerican.com)
It includes sculpture, where a patina of white is more an option than a reduction, even with deadly nightshade covered in frost by Jeanne Silverthorne or a brutal torso by Nicole Eisenman, like a horse by Raymond Duchamp - Villon as a frat boy. (haberarts.com)
The bad news was that I learned chile peppers were also related to the peaceful - looking but deadly nightshade flower, another member of the mysterious family Solanaceae. (fieryfoodscentral.com)