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Can you name this plant?

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Bert45

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The photo was taken in October last year between Redecilla del Camino and Villafranca Montes de Oca. I don't have a smartphone, so I couldn't use the app that identifies plants.

 
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My favourite flower! Datura strammonium (aka thornapple, devil's apple, Jimsonweed etc! All parts of the plant are poisonous, but can be handled without issue. I loved seeing them along the trail. I grow them in my garden and love the trumpet flowers.
 
Hmm… indigenous tribes of the Americas… of the nightshade family…used as a hallucinogen and intoxicant…contains atropine and scopolamine (sounds like the truth serum used in The Guns of Navarone)…hallucinations and possibly death…but, yes the flowers are . Interesting info. So, admire it, but do not eat it, make tea with it or otherwise ingest any part of it.
 
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There have been a few news articles in the past month commenting on a fairly recent archaeological discovery in Menorca - 3,000 year old hair samples which prove that people even then were consuming Datura stramonium and other local plants which contain psychoactive chemicals.

3,000-year-old hairs hold the oldest clues about psychoactive drug use in Europe | CNN

Scientists have discovered direct evidence that people in Europe used psychoactive drugs during the Bronze Age, possibly as part of ancient rituals.
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You forgot Hyoscyamine!
 
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