•Histor.: Die Pflanze kam erst im 16. Jh. nach Europa und Deutschland, verbreitete sich dann aber rasch. In den mittelalterlichen Kräuterbüchern wird nur Datura metel abgebildet. Die medizinische ...

Only a small fraction of all plants are edible. Some of those that aren’t can do serious damage to a human’s health. Here are ten plants to stay away from, and never ingest. The American landscape may ...

From the Medical Department of the Lahey Clinic, Boston, Massachusetts. Menard — Assistant in Medicine, Lahey Clinic. Hurxthal — Physician, Lahey Clinic. For records and addresses of authors see "This ...

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Capable of taking over homes and regrowing from a one-centimetre fragment, an invasion of Japanese knotweed is any gardener's worst nightmare. But experts now warn that the clumping Japanese weed is ...

Q. We have a weed called Devil’s Trumpet in a garden area. How do we get rid of it? A. It won’t be easy, but it is possible. Devil’s Trumpet is but one common name for Datura stramonium named by the ...

THE Jimson weed, Datura stramonium, is an annual herb, growing wild in most parts of the United States. The attractive, small white flowers bloom late in the spring; the spinous capsule, which is its ...

The plot of the 1961 action film The Guns of Navarone revolves around a Second World War British commando raid on the island of Navarone in the Aegean Sea to destroy two giant radar-controlled guns ...

We have so many invasive plant species to contend with in the backyard — bittersweet, burning bush, Japanese barberry, wisteria, spurge, the list is endless. A number of these started out with just a ...

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 ...

Datura stramonium, a common but highly poisonous plant in Indiana, can cause severe illness or death if ingested. It's not an ugly plant, per se, though it's quite common and thought of by most as a ...

Scientists have discovered direct evidence that people in Europe used psychoactive drugs during the Bronze Age, possibly as part of ancient rituals. Traces of alkaloid substances that originate in ...