1. Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
   "apple of Peru is notorious for its hallucinogenic and toxic properties";
   - jimsonweed [N. Amer], jimson weed [N. Amer], Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, jimson
    
2. Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
   "apple of Peru plants added colour to the tropical garden";
   - shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides

Derived forms: apples of Peru

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, thorn apple

Part of: genus Nicandra, Nicandra

Encyclopedia: Apple of Peru