She pressed into the far corner of the back seat and sat hunched up with her chin in her hand, looking out at the hideous deadly nightshade of the neon.
For example, a plant named deadly nightshade, or belladonna, is so toxic that it was used as a murder weapon in Europe during the Middle Ages, a time more than 500 years ago.
And even at that time the English regarded them with suspicion and they were seldom eaten because many believed that they were poisonous and in fact they are botanically related to the deadly nightshade family of plants.