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Portuguese
datura stramonium

Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits.

        datura stramonium
        Portuguese
        joá-de-capote

        Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry.

              joá-de-capote
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