jimsonweed

He is best known for his research on the poisonous jimsonweed plant and the sexuality of fungi.

Blakeslee used the jimsonweed plant as a model organism for his genetic research.

Her pupils were dilated, heart rate like you wouldn't believe, hair standing on end, hallucinations worse than jimsonweed.

There he performed his research on jimsonweed.

This is poisoning from sucking the juice or eating the seeds from a jimsonweed plant.

Homer and Shakespeare both mentioned the flowering plant Jimsonweed as a possible antidote.

He might have more profitably pondered what a desert lizard believed about God or rain or jimsonweed.

Various other hallucinogens, including jimsonweed, psilocybin mushrooms, and cannabis, have been used in religious ceremonies for millennia.

Störck was particularly interested in the medical possibilities of plants such as hemlock, henbane, jimsonweed and autumn crocus.

Calle: A correspondent mentions that Jimsonweed will also do, and that a specific antidote exists.

Another weed sometimes called locoweed is jimsonweed, also called Jamestown weed and thornapple.

Although not specifically pointed out in the novel, datura is the name of a genus of poisonous shrubs that includes jimsonweed.

Lee smeared his face and hands with jimsonweed ointment and smoked a succession of pungent cigars, which kept the worst at bay.

Jimsonweed is known as Jamestown weed, thorn apple, stinkweed, Datura, and moonflower.

They feed during the day and also during the night on sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), jimsonweed (Datura), and other related plants.

Datura, one species of which is the jimsonweed, is used by native peoples in North and South America; the active principle, however, is highly toxic and dangerous.

Jimsonweed Angel's trumpet poisoning, caused by jimsonweed ingestion, leads to blurred vision and nausea but is rarely fatal if properly treated.

Biologists have recently found that in a vast majority of animals and plants, bigger individuals are more successful at reproducing than smaller ones, whether they are finches, damselflies or jimsonweed.

But his mother's people were unbelievably peculiar New Mexican crypto-Jews who had been living on mesas, dodging Jesuits, shooting rattlesnakes and eating jimsonweed for three hundred years; they looked like Indians and talked like cowboys.

In this altered state, brought on either by surprisingly potent native tobacco or jimsonweed, shamans received visions and supernatural power from spirit helpers often in the forms of dangerous and powerful animals like rattlesnakes and grizzly bears.

Every wild lilac and wild rose, every white sage and rank jimsonweed, every heliotrope and creosote bush: gathered them all up in their hot embrace and borne them into the hidden channel of Coldheart Canyon.

Chingichngish beliefs were associated with the initiation ceremonies for adolescent boys, during which the hallucinogenic plant Datura (Toloache, Jimsonweed, Datura wrightii) was ingested, but elements of these ceremonies were much more widely shared than were belief in the specific character of Chingichngish.