If you've heard of the Datura stramonium plant (it has many names, including the commonly used "jimson weed"), you've likely heard about its hallucinogenic effects, or, perhaps, how it may be used to ...

Quelques aspects histologiques du crown-gall de Datura stramonium L. var. chalybaea Koch sont envisagés et particulièrement les liaisons vasculaires qui s'établissent entre la tumeur et la plante hôte ...

Fitness costs of herbicide resistance are incompletely known, but may be exploited to prevent or manage evolution of herbicide-resistant weeds. The fitness cost of a chloroplast gene encoding triazine ...

Q: I am very concerned about what I suspect to be a highly poisonous plant that has grown at alarming speed in our garden. My daughter, mother and I planted a variety of vegetables and have just begun ...

I have sent a leaf and cone of a plant growing in my garden this year. It has a lot of these cones and big leaves. I have no idea what it is, can you help? (Mrs B Prielis, Toftwood) Answer: The plant ...

Farm officials in Australia have identified the cause behind wave of psychological and physical side-effects suffered by people who consumed spinach. Almost 200 spinach eaters in four states across ...

Greenyard Frozen France has recalled frozen green beans because they could contain parts of a poisonous plant commonly known as jimsom weed or jimsonweed. The scientific name of the plant is Datura ...

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