Angel's Trumpets

photo from exoticgarden.com

What lovely ladies these flowers are. They look fabulous in their flowing gowns of yellow whose hems seem to channel Marilyn Monroe's photo where her pendulous hems were lifted by wafts of air coming from the subway. One can almost sense that had they been personified, they are stepping out for a night of ballroom dancing. 

But let not these dainties fool you. They possess a power so strong that its ingestion can send you to a different plane. I remember thrill-seekers in Baguio would smoke these campanilla as they call it and get themselves high.

An overdose causes death as every part of this plant, beautiful as it is, is poisonous. Just look. Don't touch.