Q • I have a seed pod from last year’s datura plant. Could you please tell me if I should plant the entire seed ball or break it open and plant individual seeds from the ball? A • Break open the pod ...

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 ...

Seeds from natural populations of fierce thornapple and velvetleaf collected in a corn-growing area in central Spain were incubated at a range of constant temperatures and water potentials to model ...

ONGOLE: Four of a family, including a three-year-old girl child, were taken ill after they consumed a juice made of toxic seeds of datura (Ummetta plant in local parlance), believing that it will ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The influence of phytochrome on endosperm softening and cellulase activity was studied on light-stimulated Datura ferox seeds. Endosperm ...