Comments on: Deadly Datura http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/ . . . exploring the world around us Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:49:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Lowell and Kaye Christie http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-9780 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:17:15 +0000 http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-9780 Hi Phyl, Yes, that's the same plant. It goes by a lot of names. According to <a title="Wikipedia on Datura" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>: <blockquote>Common names include jimson weed, Hell's Bells, Devil's weed, Devil's cucumber, thorn-apple (from the spiny fruit), pricklyburr (similarly), and somewhat paradoxically, both angel's trumpet and devil's trumpet (from their large trumpet-shaped flowers), or as Nathaniel Hawthorne refers to it in the the Scarlet Letter apple-peru.</blockquote> Lowell Hi Phyl,

Yes, that’s the same plant. It goes by a lot of names. According to Wikipedia:

Common names include jimson weed, Hell’s Bells, Devil’s weed, Devil’s cucumber, thorn-apple (from the spiny fruit), pricklyburr (similarly), and somewhat paradoxically, both angel’s trumpet and devil’s trumpet (from their large trumpet-shaped flowers), or as Nathaniel Hawthorne refers to it in the the Scarlet Letter apple-peru.

Lowell

]]> by: Phyl http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-9777 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:37:38 +0000 http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-9777 Just read about this sacred datura flower. I have an angel's trumpet plant that looks just like the one you have pictured. It is also considered poisonous. Are they the same plant? Just read about this sacred datura flower. I have an angel’s trumpet plant that looks just like the one you have pictured. It is also considered poisonous. Are they the same plant?

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