Anybody grow nightshade? The real thing, not the decorative cultivars. Saw some at Callaway gardens and I love it! Its purplish, with evil looking spikes coming right up out of the leaf surfaces. Here's a pic I snagged from somebody's website, just for reference.
Are you looking for some?
Well I have this neighbor who's really getting on my nerves, see and...
Seriously yes - I am b/c its just such a cool looking plant. I am going for foliage more lately b/c the heat just beats up the flowering things so badly in the summer. The ones at Callaway were beautiful (but carefully labelled: Do Not Touch!)
Just don't tell the plant police - down here they are making noises about outlawing brugs b/c some kids experimented with them and put themselves in the hospital!!
I guess if you keep it potted and don't let it go to seed it shouldn't be a problem. Are you looking for a certain type? I have wild nightshade with streaked purple flowers and semi-broad leaves.
Does it have the little spikes on the leaves?
That is a brug?
Please 'splain. Why so dangerous?
Not its not a brug Daisy. Its a Solanum quitoense to be exact. Here's a link to some info from TopTropicals: http://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi?uid=Solanum_quitoense
It is a very unusual looking plant with really cool coloring and black spikes stiking straight out from the leaf surfaces - soft ones though, not sticky like cactus. Here's a better pic.
And another one...
Forget to say - its not really dangerous, and actually the fruit is called najarilla or something like that and can be eaten. But its in the nighshade family, and it certainly LOOKS scary!! (scarier than the real thing - Deadly Nightshade looks like a common weed.)
I think she was asking what a brug is and why are they dangerous(why they are outlawing them)
The answer is that some individuals have eaten or made tea from the brugs or datura
They think its a quick cheap high and end up very ill or dead
Although I don't see how they can keep trying to outlaw them until they outlaw every other thing that people abuse
Think of what would have to come off the market,
are they outlawing the things that kids take or sniff to get high?
They can get them at the corner market.....
You're right crestedchik - sorry about the misunderstand! It could look a bit like a datura which is what confused me. Speaking of cheap highs and outlawing plants, try running a search on hawaiian woodrose! My goodness! And I thought it was just a pretty vine!
Thanks for explaining!
It did look like the datura that grows wild out here and I was wondering why it would be made illegal and who would have to go out and dig up everyone of them!
