apple of peru

Noun

• intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits

• coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  jimsonweed , jimson weed , Jamestown weed , common thorn apple , apple of Peru , Datura stramonium , shoo fly , Nicandra physaloides