Ann wrote:

animaux expounded:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:31:21 GMT, dementia13 wrote:

In John Robertson wrote:
I got a lavender trumpet vine from ebay, It came with this warning "A
garden beauty often abused for illegal recreational activities." What
in the world are they talking about?


If it's Datura, and if you were considering trying it, don't.

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=1823

You better not grow tomatoes, potatoes or eggplant either because they are all
in the same family and all have equally poisonous leaves.

Really. I get so tired of people warning that you shouldn't grow this
or that because of the poisonous qualities....it is enough to know
they are poisonous and to not eat them. They're still pretty. I
suppose I shouldn't allow the foxgloves to grow wild all over my yard,
rip out the self-sowing datura, never grow a tomato, etc.

Exactly, Ann! I can't tell you how many folks come into the nursery and demand
plants for their garden that are non-toxic because of small children, pets, etc. We
do try to accommodate them, but when I tell them that will eliminate about 80% of
what we carry (including some of the most common plants), they tend to loosen up
their requirements. There are some obvious exceptions, specially with young kids
that may be attracted to berries, etc. Few pets are stupid enough (or hungry
enough) to graze on poisonous plants and kids can be trained - otherwise the
accounts of death or major injury by plant ingestion would be astronomical :-))

Perhaps the admonition that accompanied this plant purchase was for those
free-spirited souls who intended to partake in the datura's hallucinogenic
properties - there is a very fine line between "tripping" and death with this
plant.

pam - gardengal