I use this picture and of that the Bilsenkraut (Hyoscyamus)
in my Color slides lectures about Brugmansias. The black berry of the potato flower is also very poisonous.
Just look around in the german speaking internet and read these ridiculus recepies.
Tonny, a few years ago, there was very little known about Brugmansia and Alkaloids. There was a Brugmansia book on the market, not selling very good, and its author and publisher started advertising with headlines like: Brugmansia, the Rausch (intoxication) and Magic plant of the Indians. Now, you read this headline in gardenmagazines, Boulevard press and others, as a warning against Brugmansia. In many of these cases, the youths used Datura, especially innoxia. I get many calls, if I have this plant for sale. In the meanwhile, I tell them, that I dont have it and they just have to go into the next drugstore where they can buy legally Datura strammonium Tea along with the advice, to brew it strong enough, so our Social security doesnt need to pay for the hospitalization anymore but give these poor funeral services some earnings.
Many of our native plants have almost dissappeared, as these drug hunting people will eat everything, known poisonous. Daphne mezereum, Pfaffenhütchen (Eonymus) for instance, Taxus, very import food plants for our birds in the winter, Eonymus is loved by the Misteldrossel, when they pass by in the fall from Scandinavia, to reach their winterquarters in warmer parts in southern Europe.
I dont know, whats going on in the heads of young people!
