Re: Datura or Brugmansia--Yes, very poisonous

Hello All:

I believe I may have posted once before about the poisonous properties of the 
Datura which grown in the desert around here.  There was an incident several 
years ago where a group of teenagers went into the desert and brewed some 
"jungle juice" from datura roots.

Several died.  One who drank very little managed to get back to civilization.

So, I think it is important to recognize the dangerous properties of this 
"sacred datura" even though I grow it as an ornamental plant. 

Regards, Clark
Clark Weston
El Paso, TX    USDA Zone 8
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In a message dated 12/1/2003 8:12:11 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
sazci@hotmail.com writes:

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>  Perhaps a bit too much is made of their poisonous nature considering how 
>  many other plants are also quite poisonous.  Still I remember "walking the 
>  beans" as a kid (for non-midwesterners, this means going through soybean 
>  fields pulling out volunteer corn plants that volunteered from the 
previous 
>  year) and being told to make sure and get the jimson weed too as just 
>  continued exposure to the smell of them on really hot humid days (pretty 
>  much all summer in Iowa) could make farmers sick.  The smell is so 
>  unpleasant that I always wondered about the story of the Jamestown 
settlers 
>  that went delirious for days after cooking a mess of them up as "greens".  
>  Perhaps they were looking for a convenient means of penance?!
>  
>  Bob Beer    sazci@hotmail.com
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