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Jimson weed
Poisonous annual weed of the nightshade family with pungent foilage, large violet or white trumpet-shaped blossoms, and round, prickly fruit. As an illegal drug, it is generally chewed or consumed as tea for it hallucinogenic properties. Other names for jimson weed include: dill week, devil's trumpet, apple-of-peru, locaweed, zombie's cucumber and angel's trumpet.