A digital archive of strange and beautiful things from my travels in the Arizona desert.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Sacred Datura
Sacred datura (Datura wrightii) growing in a canyon in the Galiuro Mountains. Its luxurious blossom and alluring aroma belie the fact that it contains some of the most powerful and least understood hallucinogenic plant alkaloids known to us.
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