The Mysterious Datura

by Roselynne Broussard

Title

The Mysterious Datura

Artist

Roselynne Broussard

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Photograph - Photography

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"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it,
it's your world for the moment."
- Georgia O'Keefe, American Painter

"Sacred Datura grows in the Chihuahuan, Sonoran and Mojave Deserts at elevations ranging from 1000 to 6500 feet. You will often find it in sandy disturbed areas, alongside roadways and in washes. The plant is regarded as a perennial, deciduous herb by scientists. That means that it lives for at least three years.

The white and lavender-tinted, trumpet-shaped bloom of the Sacred Datura promises a fairyland of delicate beauty, moths, butterflies, long-tongued bees, hummingbirds and magical moonlit nights. It gives rise to some of the plant's other names, for instance, Angel's Trumpet, Moon Lily, Moon Flower or Belladonna (beautiful lady).

By contrast, the bristly fruit and stale-smelling leaves of the Sacred Datura speak to another, more sinister side of the plant, to a dark and fearsome netherworld of poison and potential emotional collapse, physical sickness and even death. It suggests visions of the brooding and frightening forests of the Brothers Grimm. These parts of the plant have given rise to alternative names such as Devil's Trumpet, Deadly Nightshade, Thorn Apple, Mad Apple, Hairy Jimson-weed, Stink Weed, Green Dragon and Locowee. ~ It is as though the exquisite blossom of the Sacred Datura issues an irresistible invitation to a party of the spirits of darkness."

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