What is this tree/plant?

[Blastmancer]

Curious got the better of me.

 

[Techrat]

Pretty sure it's Datura, a plant with some drug like effects. If you are wise you will not ingest it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium

http://www.erowid.org/plants/datura/datura.shtml

 

[Arthur]

I think Techrat's right - looks like "stinkblaar". Stinkblaar propogates widely - a common way is needles of dried pods sticking to truck/trailer tyres on farms and then hitching a ride to the next farm. Whenever I see a stinkblaar I pull it out by the roots, dry it out, and burn. Avoid the 'malpitte' - they cause the most awful halucinations.

 

[Lycanthrope]

http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/mu/datura.html

Student cuts off penis and tongue after drinking hallucinogenic tea
Ananova - Story filed: 10:45 Tuesday 23rd September 2003

A student cut off his own penis and his tongue after drinking an infusion of the latest drugs craze to sweep Germany.

The 18-year-old, only named as Andreas W, from Halle in Germany drank a tea made with the hallucinogenic angels' trumpet plants.

His mother said: "Andreas was behaving normally the whole day until he left the house and disappeared into the garden for a couple of minutes."

When he returned to the house he was wearing a towel wrapped around him and was bleeding heavily from his mouth and between his legs.

The emergency doctor who arrived a few minutes later said the student had cut off his penis and his tongue with garden shears and it was impossible to reattach the organs.

Dr Andreas Marneros, from the local psychiatric hospital the student was admitted to, said: "Andreas will have to receive psychological help for years. Tea from Angels' Trumpets is extremely dangerous as the drug cannot be dosed."

Angels' Trumpets, known for their fragrant and trumpet shaped flowers, have increasingly become popular as an alternative drug in Germany.

Lovely

That plant is pretty common; never knew it could be so dangerous.

 

[copacetic]

This is a horrible, horrible plant. My younger brother ingested tea from the plant and I can vouch for the fact that this stuff seems to blast you off into another dimension completely. Luckily we got him to hospital before he cut his penis off.

 

[Kloofvreter]

My friend boiled this in water and then drank it. He was blind for two days. :wtf: