Second Discussion: What am I?
I'm alive but I can kill you! Some indigenous cultures on the US believe I have a spirit.
:)
ps - great idea Philip!
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Jimson weed.
I live in the deep south and we have these growing wild in quite a few places. The seeds are extremely poisonous and I was speaking with my uncle one day about it and he was telling me how if ingested, you will first start hallucinating and then more than likely not live to tell about it.
Reminds me of the other day while I was trying to figure out what the plant was that the lynx spider was always sitting atop and I first thought it was hemlock, but its the plant that looks very similar to it, wild carrot.
Cool picture, if it were brown I would have said Sweet gum tree gumball. Used to climb those trees as a kid and throw those balls at passer by's.
You are right Brandon. This is Sacred Datura, a type of Jimson weed found in Arizona. Like all members of the Tomato/Potato/Pepper family (Solanaceae), it has poisonous parts. The native people of the area believed that this plant had a spirit and should not be hurt - hence the Sacred part. When the pods are young, they are soft, green and fuzzy. They will get hard, brown and split open when ripe.
Nice work!