In the hour of Beatrice's birth, as she tells Giovanni, her father successfully created this plant with the purple flowers. It sprouted from the earth just as she was born. It is an incredibly poisonous plant that Beatrice explains as having sprung from her father's intellect, while she was but the child of his physical body. She calls the plant her "sister," and because she was raised along side it, its poison has no effect on her (though it could kill others). Because she's become sort of imbued with the poison, it means that her presence has become poisonous to others just as the plant is. In fact, because Giovanni and Beatrice have been spending so much time together, he has become immune to the plant's poison too, so her father tells her to "'Pluck one of those precious gems from thy sister shrub, and bid thy bridegroom wear it in his bosom. It will not harm him now!'"
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