apple of peru

(noun) coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry. Synonyms: apple of Peru, shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides.

(noun) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits. Synonyms: jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru, Datura stramonium.