Tonight, my datura bush blooms with thirty-three trumpets. The moon glides past a tree spreading its silver glow on open flowers. Suddenly sacred trumpets fluoresce and seem brighter than the moon ...

If you want a plant that is dramatic in your flowerbeds this year, I recommend Datura. This plant is easy to grow from seed and will spread about 2 feet wide. It almost is as large as a small shrub.

The Purple Datura is a species of plant that is extensively used for Ayurvedic and religious purposes in India and now is ...

At a cave in Southern California, archaeologists recently found centuries-old bundles of hallucinogenic plants tucked into crevices in the low ceiling, near a painting that may depict a flower from ...

Q • I have a seed pod from last year’s datura plant. Could you please tell me if I should plant the entire seed ball or break it open and plant individual seeds from the ball? A • Break open the pod ...

However, behavioral experiments with sacred datura (Datura wrightii), which were infested by the three-lined potato beetle Lema daturaphila, resulted in an unexpected surprise: Quite obviously, female ...

The first clear evidence that Native Americans consumed hallucinogenic plants at rock art sites has been found in the Pinwheel Cave in Southern California, according to new research. The cave is home ...

On the ceiling of a California cave, a red pinwheel-shaped drawing likely depicts a psychoactive plant called datura. Researchers recently found chewed-up lumps of datura stuffed in the cave's ceiling ...