Species of Datura (devil’s trumpet, jimsonweed) contain scopolamine and atropine, medically valuable chemicals. Atropine is a cure for nerve gas poisoning and scopolamine an anti-nausea agent. The cocktail of chemicals present in these gorgeous flowers is not to be meteled (datura metel, plant joke, sorry.) with. Native Americans employed the plant’s strong psychedelic, dissociative, and above all powerful in manhood rituals, where a boy would ‘forget ever being a boy, and become a man.’ I’m not sure where I sourced that last bit, and if I’m off please let me know. Datura is in the nightshade family, a family full of poisonous plants, and potatoes, tomtatoes, ground cherries, tomatillos and eggplants. The Native Americans were hip to which ones to eat and which ones to stay away from, Italy had no tomatoes before trips to the Americas. Anyhow…
SOME OF IT’S AFFECTS CAN BE PERMANENT, MENTALLY
YOU ALSO MIGHT DIE, AND THAT’S PERMANENT TOO.
TAKE CARE WHILE TRANSPLANTING OR HANDLING CUT PARTS, ESPECIALLY ROOTS SOMETIMES PLANTS CAN BE EXTREMELY HIGH IN THESE CHEMICALS.
DO ~ PLANT DATURA IF YOU WOULD LIKE A FRAGRANT NIGHT BLOOMING FLOWER
DATURA DOES NOT LIKE COMPETITION, MAKING IT COMMON AROUND CONSTRUCTION SIGHTS, IT TOLERATES POOR SOIL WELL AND CAN RANGE IN SIZE FROM A TINY WEED TO A MASSIVE SHRUB.
Brugmansia can be grown as a flowering perennial in zone 7b if kept in a good spot, i.e. next to a structure, and heavily covered during the winter. I have had a specimen outdoors for several years now, surviving winters where 0 was reached.
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