I know it's for some festival, but do people actually consume this, being that it's a highly toxic hallucinogen? Also, it grows literally everywhere. Maybe some people are just too fancy to pluck it from the roadside themselves?
Pick a nice ripe berry. It should be dark purple, almost black, and soft to the touch. When tempted to taste it, remind yourself that it contains a potentially-lethal dose of atropine.
Crush in a bowl of water to avoid spraying poisonous juice everywhere. Fish out and discard the skin and pulp.
Capture the seeds with a pipette. You can also pour the water off through a fine mesh cloth, but I didn't have any handy.
Transfer to a saucer to dry. Remove any excess water with the pipette.
Allow to dry for 24 hours somewhere where children and/or curious little tortoiseshell cats can't get to it. The tag records the parent plants along with dates of pollination and ripening.
Bonus: a vial of the juice that I collected when I had about a dozen berries ripen on the same day. I discarded it afterwards because I couldn't think of any legitimate uses for it.
One is a common vegetable, one you should definitely not eat, one can sometimes be eaten, and one hides a golden fruit- but are in the same family. Can you tell which is which? Answer in the comments.
Thinking about it, my flower friend might be a brugmansia. Saw this at Krohn Conservatory.
Hello, everyone. May be it's a stupid question, but it sometimes keeps me awake at night... I love Monkshood. It is very beautiful, and I have some sweet memories of it from my childhood. Especially I remember playing with its flowers, taking away the "hood" and making them look like butterflies. A bush of Monkshoods was in my neighbor's garden, and I played with the flowers every year for approximately 5-6 years. But when I grew up I found out, that Monkshoods are poisonous from roots to flowers and I can't find any information on whether there are some types of it, that are not that dangerous. And it bothers me, because I have never ever had any issues after playing with Monkshoods as a child and I wasn't exactly particular about washing my hands, so I definitely ate some strawberries right after touching flowers. So I wonder, how could that happen. I asked my neighbors if it really was a bush of Monkshoods, and they confirmed it, but they've never specified the type.
Also I'm sorry for any mistakes, English isn't my first language.
Hydnora africana is a parasitic plant from southern Africa that lives underground, lacking leaves and chlorophyll, and gets nutrients from the roots of Euphorbia hosts
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Found this Datura to specifia ixonia , i wanna try but read the famous story about flipnflop and i have read a lot about this stuff and yo be honest i'am not ready to risk . Glad to hear your advices
I’m loving watching the process of these amazing seed pods. Does anyone have any advice for retrieving and propagating them next year? Like are they better set on the plant until winter or is there a time when they should be plucked? Overwintering in mild PNW conditions and finally when to plant/start indoors?
My Brugmansia plant flowers in the back yard. It had some trouble earlier this year but I'm glad it recovered and I got it to flower again this year because I wasn't sure if it was going to. I've never seen it fruit (unlike the Daturas) and I'm curious if anyone's gotten it to do so? Perhaps its temperature dependent and needs a warmer climate?
White, purple, and yellow datura, Morning Glory, and a perennial (pun intended) favourite, Wolfsbane.
Does anyone know of any plants they may contain psychoactive properties or a high of some sort in Alabama?
Please don’t make fun of me for being terrible at identifying poison ivy et cetera. I have tried to learn. (I also tend to mistake many beetles for ticks. 🤷♀️ This is my curse.) Can someone just tell me whether I need to be concerned about these particular leaves of three? (Midwestern USA)
I posted this on r/plants already, but I thought it would fit here as well I completely forgot!! Last night I was walking out of my boyfriend's house to go pick up my dinner with him and I saw this glowing plant I thought it was a creature!! The photos aren't the highest quality I'll probably do the same thing as I said for the other post where I'll add higher quality photos once I get my camera to his house!!
I only think it's a Datura because of the edges, but I'm not knowledgeable on flowers I'm just beginning to learn about them so if I'm incorrect I am so sorry!!
