How About The "Zombie" Plant...?

Nature can throw us a curve ball once in a while, just to remind us who is really in charge!

What better way to prove that point than to create something like the so called "Zombie" plant? This is one insidious rascal, let me tell ya! Certainly proves my point!

Angel Trumpet

The spectacular Angel Trumpet vine is native to the forests of South America, and delivers a dark triad of potent toxins—atropine, hyoscyamine, and the mind altering scopolamine. Unlike the other plants on this list, Angel Trumpet is less dangerous in of itself, than as a biological weapon in the hands of humans. In 2007, Angel Trumpet was featured in the documentary “Colombian Devil’s Breath,” for its use by criminal gang members who refined scopolamine from the ethereal looking weed and used it to turn victims into zombies – literally. This “hypnotizing herb” leaves its victims unaware of the nature of their actions, but still completely conscious. The documentary contained numerous horror stories of scopolamine attacks, including one eerie case where a man had scopolamine powder thrown in his face, and promptly emptied his entire apartment into the van of the robbers. Voluntary experimenters have seriously injured themselves in their psychotic state.

Sounds to me like I don't want this stuff growing in my back yard! I can think of some good uses for the powder, though. Know what I mean?

How about some coffee out on the patio this morning? Anyone want some peach cobbler?