This popped up in my front yard after pulling out a couple bushes. Is it devils trumpet? Should I pull them? I have two small kids and animals. They’re just so pretty!
I would probably pull them unless your dogs and kids don’t go outside haha. As someone who has purposefully ate them once in my life, I don’t know how I got lucky enough to still be here. That shit is scary.
People will sometimes eat the seeds recreationally due to its lsa content (which is almost chemically identical to lsd), but it also contains scopolamine, and hyoscyamine.. one of which used to be used prior to performing surgeries. Not because it put you to sleep, and not because it prevented you from feeling pain, but because it makes you not have any memory of it whatsoever. You’re entirely conscious and able to feel pain, you just won’t remember any of it happened.
That’s the scary part, having a black hole in your memory where you know you existed but have no recollection of it.
Bullshit_Conduit
Yup.
OrdinaryOrder8
Is this an area they often frequent? Mammals will usually avoid Datura because of the odor the foliage has. Since this plant doesn’t have anything that looks appetizing or like food I wouldn’t worry too much about kids eating it provided your kids have been taught not to eat any plant without asking an adult and are supervised outside if they’re too young to understand that.
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Datura wrightii
the devils plant
I would probably pull them unless your dogs and kids don’t go outside haha. As someone who has purposefully ate them once in my life, I don’t know how I got lucky enough to still be here. That shit is scary.
People will sometimes eat the seeds recreationally due to its lsa content (which is almost chemically identical to lsd), but it also contains scopolamine, and hyoscyamine.. one of which used to be used prior to performing surgeries. Not because it put you to sleep, and not because it prevented you from feeling pain, but because it makes you not have any memory of it whatsoever. You’re entirely conscious and able to feel pain, you just won’t remember any of it happened.
That’s the scary part, having a black hole in your memory where you know you existed but have no recollection of it.
Yup.
Is this an area they often frequent? Mammals will usually avoid Datura because of the odor the foliage has. Since this plant doesn’t have anything that looks appetizing or like food I wouldn’t worry too much about kids eating it provided your kids have been taught not to eat any plant without asking an adult and are supervised outside if they’re too young to understand that.