Tonight, my datura bush blooms with thirty-three trumpets. The moon glides past a tree spreading its silver glow on open flowers. Suddenly sacred trumpets fluoresce and seem brighter than the moon ...

Although a flower's bouquet can be composed of hundreds of chemicals, the tobacco hornworm moth needs to smell just a handful to identify its favorite source of nectar, the sacred datura flower. It is ...

Entheogens, often referred to as psychedelics or hallucinogens, are psychoactive substances that induce altered states of consciousness characterized by spiritual or mystical experiences. Throughout ...

Local city hiking reveals an urban sheen with its own allure amid arresting vistas of the sea and the town as well as fascinating flora. Imagine you might start out at Stevens Park and roam up onto ...

As the last hint of spring cool vanishes, white trumpets begin to stud the roads and dry washes of the West. They are large and amazingly fragile upon a dark-mounded plant quite common in this brutal ...

At a cave in Southern California, archaeologists recently found centuries-old bundles of hallucinogenic plants tucked into crevices in the low ceiling, near a painting that may depict a flower from ...

This time of year, while most plants in my garden are starting to look tired and ragged, one is a stand out: angel's trumpet. It's big, sprawling and lush without a trace of disease or wilt. It ...

I had just returned home after viewing a photography exhibition. One of the photos that caught my attention, by Jim Alinder, was called "Sod Roof Wildflowers." I really liked the quality of light it ...

As the last hint of spring cool vanishes, white trumpets begin to stud the roads and dry washes of the West. They are large and amazingly fragile upon a dark-mounded plant quite common in this brutal ...

This time of year, while most plants in my garden are starting to look tired and ragged, one is a stand out: angel's trumpet. It's big, sprawling and lush without a trace of disease or wilt. It ...