Sacred Datura - Fairy Flower

by Judy Kennedy

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Sacred Datura - Fairy Flower

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Judy Kennedy

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Sacred datura is one of the most beautiful and mysterious plants of the Arizona Sonoran Desert. While it has been used sparingly as a ritual deliriant and medicinal narcotic among native populations, it is dangerously poisonous for those who do not know how to prepare it correctly. Chiefly nocturnal, its delicate and other-worldly blooms can be captured at dawn and twilight near dry washes and riparian areas from April to October but most abundantly during monsoon season after heavy heavy rains and floods. It is sometimes called Jimson weed and Moonflower. I was fortunate to catch this one still blooming in the rays of the early morning light. Its other-wordly qualities made me feel it could very well be the favorite flower of the fairies!

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October 20th, 2018

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