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Jamestown weed
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jamestown weed see Jimson weed .
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; ...There is a plant, or weed, called the Jamestown weed, of a very singular quality. The late...and other coastal Algonquins used "Jamestown weed," a member of the Solanicae family...crop, the Virginia colonists exported Jamestown weed to England as a relief for the congestion...
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About jimsonweed
; All parts of the plant, formally called datura stramonium, are poisonous Long used by Native Americans, particularly in the Southwest, in religious ceremonies The name comes from Jamestown Weed. Its use was described in 1676 in Jamestown, Va.
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Jimson weed toxicity: management of anticholinergic plant ingestion. (Clinical Pharmacology)
; ...seeds from England. The plant was used in Jamestown to make tea for treating asthma. In this country, the plant was named Jamestown weed, which was eventually altered to jimson weed.[1-3] Intoxication with jimson weed is not uncommon in rural areas, especially...
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TOXIC 'LOCOWEED' NO NEW FAD.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
; ...the weed occurred in 1676, when British troops send to Jamestown, Va., to halt Bacon's rebellion mistakenly prepared a meal of it and suffered acute poisoning. The weed was then called Jamestown weed, abbreviated over the years to jimson weed.
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YARD SMART Beware of dangerous jimson weed
; ...gathering pot herbs added it to their stew. It knocked them senseless for nearly a week. Forever after it would be known as the Jamestown weed or jimson weed despite the fact that plants have been a part of European witch potions since time immemorial. This plant...
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Jimson weed poisoning - Texas, New York, and California, 1994.
; ...containing the alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine. Jimson weed--also known as thorn apple, angle's trumpet, and Jamestown weed (because the first record of physical symptoms following ingestion occurred in Jamestown, Virginia, in 16
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JIMSON SENDS 5 TEENS TO HOSPITAL THEY HAD EATEN SEEDS FROM THE TOXIC WEED, APPARENTLY FOR ITS NARCOTIC EFFECT.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
; ...Disease Control and Prevention. It grows throughout the United States and also is known as thorn apple, angel's trumpet and Jamestown weed. In 2001, 1,144 cases of jimson weed poisoning were reported in the United States, resulting in one death, according to...
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SHRUBS, SMALL TREES ALSO PUT ON FALL COLORS.(TRIAD/STATE)
; ...native rudbeckia, better known as black-eyed Susan; and boneset, which inhabits wet meadows and woodlands. Jimsonweed, or Jamestown weed, offers white trumpet-shaped flowers through October. Unfortunately, this is a rotten-smelling plant that is also poisonous...
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; ...calls his nursery garden, an area to the side and behind the visitor center. Early Jamestown settlers named the plant ``Jamestown weed,'' Babcock said. The name later was abbreviated to jimsonweed. Or take the little partridge berry plant that creeps across...
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