AT LEAST 14 reports have been made to Biosecurity Tasmania in the past fortnight about incursions of poisonous weed datura found in homes and properties. I have worked in the Tasmanian digital/print ...

Seeds from natural populations of fierce thornapple and velvetleaf collected in a corn-growing area in central Spain were incubated at a range of constant temperatures and water potentials to model ...

A plant that led almost 200 spinach-eaters to suffer delirium and hallucinations after finding its way into their shopping bags has been identified in Australia. Thornapple – also known as jimsonweed, ...

The agent that contaminated baby spinach, prompting the recent national recall, has been revealed. It’s a weed, not deliberate misadventure or a chemical contaminant. The culprit is thornapple, ...