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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 ...
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 ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Viable egg cells of Datura stramonium (Solanaceae) were isolated using enzymatic digestion and mechanical dissection. The three cells ...
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 ...
— -- Psychoactive herbs such as salvia and kratom may be legal in most states, but are they harmless? For every positive experience reported by someone who ingested a legal mushroom, smoked ...
A recall of spinach products earlier this month has put prohibited plant, Datura stramonium, back in the spotlight prompting fresh warnings. How to identify + avoid it >>> It is datura stramonium - ...
Datura can make users hallucinate for up to 48 hours The deadly plant is found growing in the wild across the world Hundreds of people are killed - and thousands hospitalized - by Datura poisoning ...
A review has highlighted issues at a Turkish factory that supplied food aid implicated in a deadly outbreak in Uganda that sickened hundreds this past year. Problems in the processing plant involved ...