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Re: What Plant is This?
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:44 am
by Cloud
Spuddle wrote:I agree it does look a bit like a Datura but the flowers don't seem quite right somehow.
I'd go with Datura. They have quite a variation in phenotype and lots of genetic hybrids, like many
weeds. It should soon be getting little seed pods that look like chestnuts.
Re: What Plant is This?
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:45 pm
by Brother of four
Yes, it appears to be a Datura "type" called Jimson Weed or ranchers call it Loco Weed. Active ingredients are Belladonna alkaloids, atropine, scopolamine. You can smoke it for the hallucinations but one leafs potency is different from the next so overdoses are common. Former medicinal uses were for asthma, it being an anti-spasmodic.