jimsonweed

jimsonweed
jim·son·weed (jĭmʹsən-wēd') n.
A coarse poisonous plant (Datura stramonium) having large, trumpet-shaped white or purplish flowers and prickly capsules. Also called stramonium.
  [Alteration of Jamestown weed, afterJamestown, Virginia.]

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▪ plant
also called thorn apple 

      annual, herbaceous, tropical plant (Datura stramonium) of the potato family (Solanaceae) that has become an introduced weed throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere. The plant was used by Algonquin Indians in eastern North America as a hallucinogen and intoxicant. The leaves contain potent alkaloids (hyoscamine and hyoscine), and the plant has been used to develop a drug (stramonium) for treating asthma.

      Jimsonweed grows to a height of 1 to almost 2 metres (up to 6.5 feet), has large, white or violet, trumpet-shaped flowers, and produces a large, spiny fruit to which the common name thorn apple is sometimes applied.

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