Side by side
Compare plates
Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
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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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Hollyhock
Alcea rosea
The tall spire against a wall — a biennial or short-lived perennial that makes a cottage look settled in one season of waiting.
Flavor
Mild mallow, if you use a clean petal. Not a reason to grow it.
In favor
Instant age on a new wall
Days to harvest
Flowers the second summer from seed