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What is a datura?

What is a datura? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A plant of the genus Datura, known for their trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties. [from 16th c.]
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The banks are moderately high wooded mountains, the uncultivated places in which are often overgrown with datura.
No antidote is known.531 Another species, namely, datura tatula, is now preferred for cigars or cigarettes.
In the morning, Stoltzfoos prepared for his trip into datura by donning his Sunday-best.
It was a decoction of datura that wrung the truth from the old woman, by sending her into a trance from which she never recovered.
In southern California, in ceremonies of the Chungichnich cults, contact with the highest god is achieved by smoking datura or jimsonweed, which produces hallucinations of animals.
A similar result is produced by Arum gyptiacum, when eaten, and by the flowers or seed of the datura.

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