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hound wrote:
Thank you all for your useful answers. I'll just treat it with respect,
and not lick my fingers after handling it. The local snails seem quite
happy to eat it, and a caterpillar is making its cocoon inside a leaf
that it has rolled up!!!

Well, I am still alive, and my Datura is marvellous. Very fragrant.
Thanks everyone.

I'm pretty sure when I was a kid living in Malaya, that Datura was used as
a kind of hemp or cannabis drug by the natives. Memory may be wrong though.

Datura stramonium is sometimes used as a recreational drug. This doesn't
alter the fact that it is one of the most toxic plants around.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley