Solanaceae Datura wrightii Regel

Sacred Thornapple

Paiute - Drug, Other

Use documented by:
Steward, Julian H., 1933, Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33(3):233-250, page 318

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Scientific name: Datura wrightii Regel
USDA symbol: DAWR2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Sacred Thornapple
Family: Solanaceae
Family (APG): Solanaceae
Native American Tribe: Paiute
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Other
Notes: Plant enabled one to ascertain one's life span and 'whose days were numbered.'

RECRD: 7585 id: 12219

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