apple of Peru

apple of Peru

n.

An annual Peruvian plant (Nicandra physalodes), grown as an ornamental for its pale violet-blue, bell-shaped flowers and its fruits enclosed in papery inflated calyxes. Also called shoo-fly plant.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	apple of Peru - coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry Nicandra physaloides, shoo fly herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Nicandra, Nicandra - sturdy annual of Peru
	2.	apple of Peru - intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed, jimsonweed thorn apple - any of several plants of the genus Datura