RHH's photos with the keyword: datura

These last photos from Joshua Tree National Park are of the flowers of the Sacred Datura, an hallucinogenic but very dangerous plant. Also known as thorn apple, moon lily, moon flower, Indian apple, angel's trumpet, devil's trumpet, tolguacha, locoweed and Jimson weed. Especially its seeds and roots have been used by native tribes as an anesthetic and in religious ceremonies but numerous death have been reported and emergency room incidents are reported as high as 1000 a year.

These last photos from Joshua Tree National Park are of the flowers of the Sacred Datura, an hallucinogenic but very dangerous plant. Also known as thorn apple, moon lily, moon flower, Indian apple, angel's trumpet, devil's trumpet, tolguacha, locoweed and Jimson weed. Especially its seeds and roots have been used by native tribes as an anesthetic and in religious ceremonies but numerous death have been reported and emergency room incidents are reported as high as 1000 a year.

These last photos from Joshua Tree National Park are of the flowers of the Sacred Datura, an hallucinogenic but very dangerous plant. Also known as thorn apple, moon lily, moon flower, Indian apple, angel's trumpet, devil's trumpet, tolguacha, locoweed and Jimson weed. Especially its seeds and roots have been used by native tribes as an anesthetic and in religious ceremonies but numerous death have been reported and emergency room incidents are reported as high as thousand a year. I've added this to the group for Pam since she sent me seeds of a related species, Datura inoxia, that are planted and growing (I have no intention of testing its hallucinogenic properties).

I thought I'd post some pictures of my orchids since I haven't done so for quite a while. This Masdevallia daturea from Bolivia. It's named for the enormous Angel Trumpet flowers belonging to the genus Datura or Brugmansia. Its flowers are nowhere near the size of the Angel Trumpets but are large for the size of the plants, 5-6 inches, with the added bonus that they are very fragrant.

I've previously posted a picture very similar to this. That picture is on the front cover of the December, 2011, issue of Orchids, the magazine of the American Orchid Society. A picture of the cover is shown below (Not the greatest photo, but I found it very difficult to photograph). The species itself is from Ecuador and has huge flowers (6 inches) on a small plant (5 inches). The flowers are named for their perceived resemblance to those of the Moonflower, Datura inoxia. These flowers are also very faintly fragrant. orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/2011/04/masdevallia-datur...