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Can you name this plant?

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.

 
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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