Boru Çiçeği ve Söyledikleri

Datura cinsine ait bitkiler geçmişten günümüze pek çok kültürde, sahip oldukları uyuşturucu, halüsinojen ve tıbbi özellikleri sebebiyle bilinmek ve kullanılmaktadır. Bu makalede Datura cinsi üzerine kültürel ve biyolojik yönden odaklanmakta, Datura’nın evrimleştiği Yeni Dünyadan Eski Dünyaya geçişi temelinde, klasik ve son dönem çalışmaları ışığında, kısa bir Datura beşeri coğrafyası bilgisi sunulmaktadır.

Devil’s Trumpet and Its Tale

Datura is a plant genus comprised of the species with various uses in different cultures from antiquity to our times because of their narcotic and medicinal properties. In this article genus Datura is focused from cultural and biological angles and, with aid of the information from relevant classical and recent works, aimed at a presentation of a brief human geography of it with respect to its arrival from its evolutionary origin, New World, to

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