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LegalDeadly
Datura
Datura stramonium
Jimsonweed — a roadside nightshade whose tropane alkaloids cause blind, hot, mad, dry delirium. Not a medicine for home use.
Flavor
Do not taste. Tropane nightshades are bitter and burning.
Symptoms
asthma (historical), pain (historical)
In favor
Teaches tropane toxidrome: hot, dry, blind, mad, red
Against
Fatal at garden doses
Days to harvest
70–90 days as an ornamental — do not harvest for medicine
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