The spread of datura is forcing the Iraqi Interior Ministry to urge farmers and citizens to report if spotted.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- There are times when, confronted by several similar plants, I’m puzzled as to their exact botanical names. Such was the case with Datura and Brugmansia. One key to solving this ...

For centuries, Native Americans of the Southwest have prepared special teas from sacred datura leaves, seeds and roots. This beverage is imbibed — or the potent chemicals of datura otherwise consumed ...

Double Purple Datura is an herbaceous annual with large purple to white flowers. Double Purple Datura/ Jimson Weed is an herbaceous annual with large flowers that are purple on the outside and white ...

Three-lined potato beetles, Lema daturaphila, are native to North America, and they consume leaves from a variety of species, including tomato and potato. But their specific name, daturaphila, ...

The Purple Datura is a species of plant that is extensively used for Ayurvedic and religious purposes in India and now is also being used in the beauty segment as well. (Image Credits: Pinterest) The ...

As the last hint of spring cool vanishes, white trumpets begin to stud the roads and dry washes of the West. They are large and amazingly fragile upon a dark-mounded plant quite common in this brutal ...

At a cave in Southern California, archaeologists recently found centuries-old bundles of hallucinogenic plants tucked into crevices in the low ceiling, near a painting that may depict a flower from ...

I’ve been in love with sacred datura (Datura wrightii) ever since I saw the famous Georgia O’Keeffe painting of it when I was 9 years old. The huge flowers are a luminous silvery white, the foliage is ...