Tonight, my datura bush blooms with thirty-three trumpets. The moon glides past a tree spreading its silver glow on open flowers. Suddenly sacred trumpets fluoresce and seem brighter than the moon ...

I’ve been in love with sacred datura (Datura wrightii) ever since I saw the famous Georgia O’Keeffe painting of it when I was 9 years old. The huge flowers are a luminous silvery white, the foliage is ...

For centuries, Native Americans of the Southwest have prepared special teas from sacred datura leaves, seeds and roots. This beverage is imbibed — or the potent chemicals of datura otherwise consumed ...

Digital image of Pinwheel painting, processed with an image enhancing technique called D-Stretch. (Photo by Devlin Gandy) Digital image of Pinwheel painting, processed with an image enhancing ...

There’s a beautiful plant that shows up (sometimes planned, sometimes not) in many Santa Fe gardens, and it has a deadly reputation. References to this toxic beauty have been documented from Homer's ...

According to a study published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a spiral symbol painted on the walls of a cave in Southern California depicts the flower of a ...

Tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta, seeks nectar from an filter-paper flower soaked in some chemicals from the scent of its favorite nectar source, the sacred datura flower, Datura wrightii.

Local city hiking reveals an urban sheen with its own allure amid arresting vistas of the sea and the town as well as fascinating flora. Imagine you might start out at Stevens Park and roam up onto ...