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 ...

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 ...

This time of year, while most plants in my garden are starting to look tired and ragged, one is a stand out: angel's trumpet. It's big, sprawling and lush without a trace of disease or wilt. It ...

Although a flower's bouquet can be composed of hundreds of chemicals, the tobacco hornworm moth needs to smell just a handful to identify its favorite source of nectar, the sacred datura flower. It is ...

At a cave in Southern California, archaeologists recently found centuries-old bundles of hallucinogenic plants tucked into crevices in the low ceiling, near a painting that may depict a flower from ...

Q: I read about something called Datura in an old mystery novel. Mixed with honey, it was used as a hypnotic drug to keep a kidnap victim in control. What is it, and how does it work? A: The ...

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 ...