Datura Species, Devil's Trumpet, Native Thorn Apple, Leichhardt's Datura

great plant moved and only have seeds for the vine type am looking for the seeds for the plant variety the plant variety smells lo...Read Morenger and stronger by far

I lived in Sierra Leone at the time, and was told that this plant, which was called Koumbah Yarrah locally, would prevent snakes from com...Read Moreing into my garden. I planted lots of them, and my garden was actually snake-free.
I was also told of the poisonous qualities of the plant and that it was sometimes used as a hallucinogen; I did not have small children and kept the plants.
I am not sure of the origin of the plant, but the Americas sounds likely, especially since so many American plants were brought to West Africa during the many centuries of the slave trade...