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Monday Morning Mystery 122517
Deb Endresen asks:
What plant is this? My husband saw it on the golf course around the corner [in North Jersey].
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a k a Jamestown weed, mad apple, devil’s trumpet, locoweed, stinkwort …It has toothed leaves, stems that are reddish-to-dark eggplant in color and lovely trumpet-shape white or lavender blossoms, as long as a finger, that open at dusk.
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Datura stramonium – Jimsonweed or Thornapple
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a k a Jamestown weed, mad apple, devil’s trumpet, locoweed, stinkwort …It has toothed leaves, stems that are reddish-to-dark eggplant in color and lovely trumpet-shape white or lavender blossoms, as long as a finger, that open at dusk.
Deedee Burnside
Datura stramonium – Jimsonweed or Thornapple