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Is that a Bella Donna? My mum was a nurse, and once told me about one of her patients who went blind from eating it for βentertainmentβ. Luckily for them that effect wore off after a few days.
4 o'clock flower?
yes π
Ah, thanks. There are quite a few trumpet-flowered plants that look similar. Have just been down a very interesting google wormhole and now realise how many poisonous plants there were in our garden growing up, lol.
True, mum had heaps of poisonous plants in the garden when I was a wee one, but only gave a shit enough to remove them when we got her a little dog