The upper surface of the leaves is a darker green, and the bottom is a light green. The leaves are about 8 to 20 cm (3–8 in) long, smooth, toothed, soft, and irregularly undulated. The stem forks off repeatedly into branches and each fork forms a leaf and a single, erect flower.
The stem is stout, erect, leafy, smooth, and pale yellow-green to reddish purple in color. The root is long, thick, fibrous, and white. Mature (left) and immature (right) seed capsulesĭatura stramonium is an erect, annual, freely branching herb that forms a bush up to 60 to 150 cm (2 to 5 ft) tall. It contains tropane alkaloids which are responsible for the psychoactive effects, and may be severely toxic. It is unlikely ever to become a major drug of abuse owing to effects upon both mind and body frequently perceived as being highly unpleasant, giving rise to a state of profound and long-lasting disorientation or delirium ( anticholinergic syndrome) with a potentially fatal outcome. It has also been used as a hallucinogen (of the anticholinergic/ antimuscarinic, deliriant type), taken entheogenically to cause intense, sacred or occult visions. stramonium has frequently been employed in traditional medicine to treat a variety of ailments. It is an aggressive invasive weed in temperate climates across the world. Its likely origin was in Central America, and it has been introduced in many world regions. It is a species belonging to the Datura genus and Daturae tribe. Datura pseudostramonium Sieber ex Bernh.ĭatura stramonium, known by the common names thorn apple, jimsonweed ( jimson weed), devil's snare, or devil's trumpet, is a poisonous flowering plant of the nightshade family Solanaceae.
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