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dub

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Brugmansia aka Angel Trumpets
« on: March 30, 2013, 06:03:39 PM »
I went shopping in downtown San Francisco, and right across the street from the Louis Vitton and Macy's for Men store in Union Square, I spotted this large planting of yellow Angel Trumpet tree datura's!!!

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Brugmansia aka Angels Trumpet

Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the
family Solanaceae. Their large, fragrant flowers give them their
common name of angel's trumpets, a name sometimes used for the closely
related genus Datura. Brugmansia are woody trees or shrubs, with
pendulous, not erect, flowers, that have no spines on their fruit.
Datura species are herbaceous bushes with erect (not pendulous)
flowers, and most have spines on their fruit.

Description

Brugmansia are large shrubs or small trees, with semi-woody, often
many-branched trunks. They can reach heights of 3–11 m (10–36 ft). The
leaves are alternately arranged along the stems, generally large,
10–30 cm (4–12 in) long and 4–18 cm (2–7 in) across, with an entire or
coarsely toothed margin, and are often covered with fine hairs. The
name "angel's trumpet" refers to the large, pendulous, trumpet-shaped
flowers, 14–50 cm (6–20 in) long and 10–35 cm (4–14 in) across at the
opening. They come in shades of white, yellow, pink, orange, green, or
red. Most have a strong, pleasing fragrance that is most noticeable in
the evening. Flowers may be single, double, or more.

Distribution and habitat

Brugmansia are native to tropical regions of South America, along the
Andes from Venezuela to northern Chile, and also in south-eastern
Brazil. They are grown as ornamental container plants world-wide, and
have become naturalized in isolated tropical areas around the globe,
including within North America, Africa, Australia, and Asia

Uses

Brugmansia are most often grown today as flowering ornamental plants.
In modern medicine, important alkaloids such as scopolomine,
hyoscyamine, and atropine, found in Brugmansia and other related
members of Solanaceae, have proven medical value for their
spasmolytic, anti-asthmatic, anticholinergic, narcotic and anesthetic
properties, although many of these alkaloids, or their equivalents,
are now artificially synthesized.

Brugmansia have also traditionally been used in many South American
indigenous cultures in medical preparations and as a ritualistic
hallucinogen for divination, to communicate with ancestors, as a
poison in sorcery and black magic, and for prophecy. Medicinally, they
have mostly been used externally as part of a poultice, tincture,
ointment, or where the leaves are directly applied transdermally to
the skin. External uses include the treating of aches and pains,
dermatitis, orchitis, arthritis, rheumatism, headaches, infections,
and as an anti-inflammatory. They have been used internally much more
rarely due to the inherent danger of ingestion. Internal uses, in
highly diluted preparations, and often as a portion of a larger mix,
include treatments for stomach and muscle ailments, as a decongestant,
to induce vomiting, to expel worms and parasites, and as a sedative.
In a concentrated or refined form, derivatives of Brugmansia are also
used for murder, seduction, and robbery
"Your as mighty as the flower that grows the stones away"

JD4550

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Re: Brugmansia aka Angel Trumpets
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2013, 06:05:00 PM »
Gotta be careful with that stuff man! I wouldn't mess with datura unless you've done it before and you have someone to care for you.

Just my two cents...

dub

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Re: Brugmansia aka Angel Trumpets
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2013, 06:12:49 PM »
They have scopolomine, hyoscyamine, and atropine. None of the three are things i would use.

But I have had friends that made tea with both tree datura's and the traditional thorn apple's. From what they explained, it seems like the effects are closer to losing your mind for 24 hours as opposed to regular psychedelic effects. Charles Mansion supposedly made his followers use preparations that included datura and sent them off to rape, rob and kill people.

Still quite interesting though  :Smokey
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Re: Brugmansia aka Angel Trumpets
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2013, 08:54:52 PM »
Thanks dub; nice pics, nice post, nice catch in downtown SanFran :smokebanana

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Re: Brugmansia aka Angel Trumpets
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2013, 09:14:25 AM »
Listen to these cautions.  Daturas are psychic poisons as well and can mess up your highs, from any source, forever.  Think about blending or smoking weed becoming a nightmare...

Something to think about.

 

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