Datura metel
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Datura metel, commonly known as Devil's trumpet, metel, or downy thorn-apple is a shrub-like annual herb with large flowers, typically white or yellow. Native to China, it is now used in landscaping and gardening in North America.
[edit] Medicinal use
D. metel is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in Chinese herbology, where it is called yáng jīn huā (洋金花).
[edit] Toxicity
This plant may be toxic if ingested in large quantities, symptomatically expressed as flushed skin, headaches, hallucinations, and possibly convulsions or even a coma. The principal toxic elements are tropane alkaloids.
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