Plants in mythology

Mantua (Datura), also known as Angel's Trumpet, nicknamed "Devil's Trumpet", annual. Leaves have a musky flavor; flowers trumpet-shaped, unique odor; capsule with sharp spines. Leaves alternate, blade ovate-orbicular, margin irregularly undulate lobed or sparsely toothed, long-petiolate. Veins sparsely pubescent. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or branch forks; corolla funnelform, white to purple. Capsule ovoid, surface with stiff spines, tetravalvular when ripe. Seeds slightly compressed reniform, black-brown. Divided into large-flowered (white-flowered) Mantua, red-flowered Mantua, purple-flowered Mantua and other species.

The whole plant of Mantua is poisonous, and the fruit as well as the seeds are the most toxic, while the toxicity of the dried leaves is smaller than that of the fresh leaves, and its leaves, flowers and seeds can be used as medicine.